Dalia
In all 10 years of Dalia's life, coming to the capital was the best thing that had ever happened to her.
Gone were the days when she had to spend the whole day alone if the other kids her age were occupied by helping their parents in tending to the fields.
Gone were the days when her mother had had to go to bed without eating, just so that she wouldn't have to starve. Although her mother used to insist that she had already eaten somewhere else, Dalia knew that she had only had water to fill her stomach.
Coming to the capital had changed everything. First, there had been the candy which she had always had to look at from a distance. Since she had never had the experience of having anything in abundance since being born, she had treasured everything that she had gotten, thinking that it might last only a little while.