1 : Quailis island.

The weather was very cold, it was colder than what Cyrus expected, when he arrived two days ago, he thought that the cold was caused by his feeling of fear and anxiety that he had because of being in a strange place, not because of heavy snowfall.

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But since yesterday, after spending an acceptable period of rest, he understood that the real reason for his feeling of cold was the weather outside.

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Where is the wave of warmth that is supposed to flood the region in July and August? It certainly does not include Tuswiya. Cyrus sighed sadly, and in a few hours he would go to a land completely unknown to him.

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[To the Transit, the final call to the Transit passengers]

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Carrying a backpack and an old camera around his neck, he crossed the road heading to the dock, and reached the end of the port, where he stood there waiting in the turn to go on board , he put his arms around his shoulder as he looked towards the island.

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Quailis Island looked beautiful, no more like strat out of fantasy and very fascinating. He grabbed his camera and took some pictures of the island, the people, and the mountains. In fact, he did not know anything about these areas. and didn't find anything in internet he only known about this place through his parents loved to travel so much that he left their son with his cruel aunt who was hurting him, the only thing made him bear this war knowing that his parents will return to him in the end.

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His hopes were destroyed when he learn, on his tenth birthday, that the plane carrying his parents had crashed into the sea, some of the passengers survived, but not them.

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He shook his head as if he was getting rid of those bad memories, he cast his gaze at the camera, it was all that was left of his father, and he inherited the love of photography from him and he used to take pictures of every place he went to, he now realized that he had to be more adventurous and travel and explore before.

He looked at old lady , smiling and indicating to him that the queue was over.

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The Steamship slowed down, then the engine stopped running in preparation for the Quailis.

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Cyrus stood on his feet, dying to see the island, it turned out that that most of the island to be a group of farms scattered in the mountains, but the fog didn't help him see the place completely.

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There is no doubt that the place looks more wonderful in the spring. It is true that the scenery of snow and ice that covers the peaks and mountains is beautiful, but it certainly will not match the beauty of the trees, roses and flowers.

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After a half hour he had found a motel to sleep in tonight, took a key and entered his room, threw his bag on the floor and lay on the bed.

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He took out a picture from his left coat pocket and looked at the picture with a sad smile. in the picture was a woman with short pink-haire reache her ears was cuddling a man with long red hair wearing glasses. He turned the picture to the other side and something was written there.

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("We are now on the beautiful island of Quailis, date 9/6/-")

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He kissed the photo, embraced it and closed his eyes, unaware that his life was about to change drastically.

Cyrus woke up to the sound of his phone ringing, picked up his phone and stare stupidly at the clock it was twelve o'clock he didn't understand how he had slept all day .

The caller was his friend Mark, as it seems he called to make sure that he arrived safely . He tried to answer him, but he stopped ringing. The transmission here is bad. cyrus thought of calling him later.

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He went to the bathroom, but when he opened the tap water, he found the water very cold and couldn't understand how people were bathing here, he just brushed his teeth, washed his face, and went down.

The motel he spent the night in was not luxurious or big, the place was filled with animal fur, and heads of deer and bears. chairs and tables, and most of the walls were also wooden.

The motel consisted of two floors, the first floor contained the kitchen, the hall, the owner's room and the reception room, on the second floor it contained seven rooms for the guests.

The person who owned the place was a woman in her forties and you can feel tenderness and kindness aura around her, when she saw cyrus quickly coming down the stairs. She drew a warm smile on her lips saying, "Oh, you woke up, it's lunch time now, sit down on your seat."

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He looked at her while she was placing the dishes on the table. He sat on the closest chair to him and said, "Why didn't you wake me up early?"

"You looked tired yesterday, so you don't seem to be able to handle the cold with your skinny body. and you don't seem like someone how eat well too."

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She turned back and went to the kitchen and brought a pot with her, poured vegetable soup for him in a bowl and put the rice and meat in a fortress and went on saying: "I put two more pieces, you have to finish everything on your plate understand."

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A big-bodied man entered, shouting, "I'm going to die of hunger. Is the food ready?"

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Maria (The Lady) bored, "Did you not eat everything in the kitchen four hours ago, why are you acting as if there was a famine coming?"

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"Dear, would you blame me for falling in love with your food?" He said as he took off his heavy coat, hat and winter shoes by the aisle.

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The Jack sat across Cyrus and Maria went to get food for him , and when she came back and placed the saucer in front of him, he looked at his plate and cyrus plate and said frowningly, "Why did you put one piece of meat for me?"

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Maria crossed her arms and said, "It's your usual share. Why do you look at me like this?"

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"So why does the new inmate get three pieces?" He said it while pointing his finger at cyrus.

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Maria held her eyebrows and said, "As I said, he's an inmate here, and then look at him and see yourself compare yourself to him, he needs food more than you."

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cyrus remained silent through out the lunch period and began to feel nervous, because he noticed that Jack was looking at him with angry eyes, as if he wanted to eat him as well, while Maria was preparing food for the other guests, he avoided looking at Jack, and put his attention in the window.

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he couldn't help but to Notice that the snowfall has stopped, he was glad that he can go out and take some pictures. It's his chance now that he must take it up. He stood up and walked towards were he thought was the kitchen and saw Maria washing the dishes.

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"That was a wonderful meal, madam," he said with a smile.

"I'm glad you enjoyed it, dear." She furrowed her eyebrows when she saw that the plate was almost full and said, "But did you eat little?"

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cyrus looked at Maria and said nervously, "It's not your food, it's really delicious, but I normally don't eat much."

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He did not want to disturb the owner more than he did, so he started washing the dishes with her. Maria argued with him at first, but she gave up with his insistence.

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He went upstairs and saw a tall, thick-bearded, brown-haired man coming out of one of the rooms, and he felt a strange shudder towards him. He did not know exactly what he was, but he was certainly not comfortable. The man looked at him for a moment and then continued his path.

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cyrus took a deep breath and told himself that he was imagining it and entered his room . he changed his clothes, put on a heavy overcoat, and put on gloves and a woolen hat.

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He went down the stairs quickly and started running towards the door. He stopped when Maria said, shouting, "you're not a child you should know it's wrong to run on the stairs." She put her hand on her head and continued: "I don't know when it's prepared for me that you'll fall and break, were are you raning for ?"

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"To the mountainous regions to take some pictures," he pointed to his camera.

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The smile disappeared from her face and seriously said in a low voice, "I think you should take permission before taking pictures. The mountain area is private property and you simply cannot enter it."

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"why is that ?" cyrus asked not wanting to give up.

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" it belongs to the Quailis family."

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"Who are they,".

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Maria smiled on his funny expression and said: "Our island remained uninhabited until the Quailis family bought it eighty years ago, and then the farmers moved to it because the farms needed a lot of work and collective effort to restore life to it , in addition to that we rented them, but today our island has a good economy because of The agriculture and hunting which secured good jobs for all the population of up to 90 people, thanks to the Quailis family. " she was silent a little and went on:" You can say that they are kind of our protectors , and there are also laws that we should abide, you should understand that. "

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"Wow, how much money do they have to buy an island ? , they look like the royal family or something " cyrus paused for a while and then said, "Is there another motel here?"

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"No, mine is the only one on the whole island , why ?"

"it's nothing" he tried to conceal his feelings from the nice lady.

He wanted to ask her if she had ever met his parents, but he don't have enough time to ask her now if he wants to come back before dawn, he can just ask her when he come back.

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cyrus went to the mountains region and didn't consider Maria warning , thinking ' the island is large and it is impossible to be discovered, not as if I am going to rob or murdering anyone ' he looked at his watch, which indicates five and a half, he did not notice the passage of time and who blames him as if he entered another world made him lose feeling In time and taking all his attention.

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He found a cave and the place was simply beautiful, the ice covered all its sides, the ice looked as if it were made of crystals or a piece's of diamond, when he was taking a picture, he heard someone screaming . cyrus immediately stopped what he was doing an put down the camera and listening, but there was no sound. cyrus thought that Perhaps he imagined it.

When they were visualizing he heard the sound again, but this time louder than before, he left his bag and camera on the ground and went out of the cave and ran to the source of the sound, it is the voice of a girl.

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" S stop, uh ... ah, ah, please stop a ... please, please ...."

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Suddenly he saw a man running quickly towards the village. He could not see the features of his face, as he was far from cyrus sight.

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cyrus continued, following and searching for the source of the sound, until he entered an area surrounded by trees from every direction to listen to the sobs of a blond girl sitting on the snow-covered ground with her feet bound to her chest.

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Her clothes seemed torn and a heart-wrenching sound of crying approached her, trying to calm her down, but when he touched her she screamed: "Noooooooooooooooo! Don't hurt me anymore , it painful please stop ..."... She moved her hand as if she was fighting and kicked and kicked.

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Look closely at her that she is a child, perhaps 16 or 15 years old, her face looked swollen and her body full of blood and , by looking at her reaction ...

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Suddenly cyrus had An ominous idea came to his mind and wished he was just exaggerating . there is no way such monster exist , he couldn't imagine anyone would do that to a child. cyrus tried to approach the girl but the closer he got, the more intense her screams became.

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"Please let me help you," cyrus said as he was about to cry at the sight of the girl that refuses his approach.

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"stay ... STAY AWAY ... FROM ME ."

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cyrus heard the sound of growling and someone footsteps approaching but didn't care and kept trying to pick up the girl who was resisting and screaming. Suddenly someone hit him behind his head so hard and couldn't do anything except passing out.

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