Chapter 1: Chaya

Chaya doesn't know when she first realized what was happening to her. When she first noticed that everyday she was called by a different name in a different place with different parents. When she first noticed that sometimes her name was in an entirely different language that she could somehow understand perfectly.

She does know when she realized that she wasn't actually there at all. She was six and she ​knew down into the fiber of her very bones that her name was Chaya, but her parents kept insisting that she was Shannon. That, no they had never been out of the country or even out of the state so she should stop saying how great the Eiffel Tower had looked. She remembers that she had stayed in Shannon for a couple of days and her parents had sent her to a psychologist in their worry over how she was acting.

Chaya was seven when she was able to learn what powers she had, when she found that she could access the person's memory. When she realized that she could remember everything that she had seen and that she knew the different languages that have been used and how all of them differed from each other. She used the ability to see how she should act so as not to end up in a situation like the one while she was Shannon. From then on Chaya always pretended that she was someone else, and now she doesn't know how she ever figured out who ​she​ was.

Over time she noticed that she was never in the body of an adult. Even more, she was never in the body of someone that wasn't her own age. She was always in the body of people her own age, it was through this that she was able to pinpoint her own birthday, November first. Looking back on it when she was older, she found it a little weird. She had gotten the nerve to look up what usually happened on that day, and it was part of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration, where they celebrated the life of people after their death. It was weird because here she was, something that travelled from person to person living a day in their life, and knowing their death.

When Chaya first noticed the golden rope, she didn't know what to think. She figured she was always asleep when it came and whisked her off from place to place, person to person. It glowed in the night brightly, it was utterly solid and unbreakable, but at the same time it flickered out of view at times and she could sometimes see through it. Chaya wanted to test the ropes limits and found that she could make her own choice concerning where she went, and found that if she used it too much, it would just take her wherever no matter what she wanted to go.

She never tried to tell anyone about what happened to her. It all stemmed to a documentary on experimentation of hybrid animals that her parents didn't know she was watching. It scared her out of her wits. All Chaya could think was that she was like that animal. Something new and never seen before, and that if anyone ever found out they would somehow make it to where she never moved from person to person again and the experiments would begin. It was terror to her young mind, and so Chaya vowed that no one would ever know.

Chaya lasted like this for a long time. Sixteen years of no one ever seeing her, of her always forcing herself to be someone else so no one ever knew. Sixteen years of forcing her hand to go back to her favorite kids to check up on them, and sixteen years of the golden rope forcing her where it wanted her. And it lasted until she was in a girl named Nadia, a girl who was kidnapped while she was inside.