Cat-

A dark, candlelit room, smelling of smoke.

Cat stumbled and was pushed to her knees, a blade to her back and her face pressed against a table.

"Stop screaming!" a woman yelled. "We only need a little!"

Cat remembered a blade pressing into her back, then the images were splintered.

Blood in a vial.

Red robes.

A blue lightning bolt arcing up from her blood into a crystal blue sky. 

Storms.

And a book. 

Those were the only memories she'd pieced together through her whole life. 

@Hermione Granger I understand.

@Brookeira That was interesting! No idea what it meant, but interesting nonethless!

I just want to provide some information on how the town works. It's actually a lot larger than I made it sound. There is a garden and an orchard on the roof of the town hall, the biggest building in town. They grow apple trees, tomatoes, corn, etc., and have different seasons for harvesting each plant. They get water from an underground spring. They also raise cattle and chickens on a ranch, using their meat, milk and eggs as food, and they also eat the occasional fried snake. Their gear is made from metals in the mine, and they build houses out of mostly wood. Yes, there are trees. As for their clothing, it's been handed down for generations. No one remembers how to make it.

With that out of the way, I guess I'll continue.

Henry~

Deep into the caves I go. As the sounds of dripping stalactites, pick axes chipping away at stone, and echoey shouts of the miners fill my ears. I quickly make my way northwest, towards the spring, where my father's apparently waiting for me. When I get there, he's standing with his back to me, facing the steadily flowing stream of water.

"Pa?" I pant.

The man turns around, his face illuminted in the dim light from my headlamp. "So, you finally showed up, did ya?" he says in his gruff voice.

"What did you want?" I ask impatiently

My father grins. "Well, they found something new."

"Something... what?"

"They found something new. Something that's not coal."