[BU-LIT] : DUVA : How my life began

The first thing I remember was a cold touch covering all of my body, though at that time I didn't realise that I had a body. I was born in the northern side of the realm, where snow and cold wind had free reign. When I was born, my body temperature had instantly dropped, stinging my body with pain as if I was poked with many sharpened knifes. My mom and dad thought this was the day I got brain-damaged, cursing me with simplemindedness; thinking I had powers. But I knew different. I was able to to manipulate the snow and ice around me, even in the first few days of my life, it's just that others did not pay attention to it, or put it on Mother Nature.

In some way, it was the Mother playing with the snow, through me. I was gifted, while the others were not. Maybe this is why I was not able to stay with my birth herd for long; I never really belonged here. And so when I was old enough to stand on my own four feet, and was able to run away fast enough from predators, I took the courageous decision to leave home. I did not have to live in loneliness anymore, while being surrounded by so many, and over time (though I did not know this yet) I would be able to develop my skills without being judged.

The first thing I did, when snow again fell (which, really, was 9 out of 12 months) was build a shelter for myself. Not by dragging around branches and hiding underneath them, but by manipulating the snow around me, so it would not touch me. It was the first time in my entire life, I could feel a shimmer of warmth. Yet Ice was in my veins, and even if I willed it away on the outside, I would never lose it on the inside. Such was my gift. Such was my power.