Milya was searching papers filled with old memories, while she flipped through the papers aimlessly something stopped her. She froze and stared at the paper in front of her, she quickly pulled it out as soon as she could process what she has found. It was a small map, mostly filled with clues. She remembered the memory of her brother’s friend giving her the piece of paper for her 9th birthday while he was visiting Syliras. Her brother was dead by then, or rather presumed dead according to her parents. His friend looked at her with pitying eyes as he dropped it off, and she decided then that she didn’t like him. She didn’t want to play her brothers game then, she wanted to forget everything. But now she was talking to people, letting her memories come back and put a smile on her face. She wanted to do the last thing her brother has left her, she could think of it as a late birthday present. She assumed her brother had hidden money or something, she wasn’t exactly sure of the prize at the end of the journey. Perhaps he even might have been waiting there if he was alive to give her a hug and a real present. But she had a feeling that he had hidden something while he was here visiting when she was still 8.
He had done something like this to her before, but he had come with her. That was how she gained her brothers favorite dagger, it wasn’t much pretty normal except for his named engraved in the side, but he had also engraved her name in it before giving it to her. While she was searching for the ‘treasure’ he helped her along the way, but this time she would be on her own. She could even think of it as an adventure, she thought and grinned. She looked at the first clue and read:
Our favorite place to walk at night with the moon in our sight
She grinned, her brother always use to make silly rhymes and joke around with her. She knew the answer, it was simple enough. It was the shore. She traveled quickly with the map in her hands, it wasn’t long until she arrived. She took a look around and then looked at the map, mostly it just had her traveling around doing the things that she use to enjoy with her brother. She felt rather silly at times while preforming some of the tasks he had written down for her too do, but she did them all with a smile on her face.
She finally ended up at their favorite place to hang out, it was outside in a small little spot that was pretty and beside a wall. She knew exactly where he had hidden it, she quickly found the small opening in the wall and pulled out a box. In the box there was a picture that her brother had painted, it was her father, mother, brother, and herself standing on the beach. Her brother was very talented and she carefully traced her finger over the figures. It was a great gift, something that she would treasure forever. After she pulled out a note that said:
She let out a sigh, it was just like her brother to write this. She closed her eyes as memories came flying at her, she pushed them down. At least now she had another thing to remember him by, before she had nothing. At the very bottom she pulled out a bag of candy that her brother had made for her with probably her mother. She took one out and started sucking on it, surprised at the taste of maple syrup on her tongue. Her mother didn’t like her having sweets, especially maple sugar. She loved maple sugar even though, she’d only had it a couple of times. After she gathered the stuff she ran back to her room, and hung up her brothers picture. She smiled and then started savoring each candy she popped into her mouth.Hey Mily! Happy ninth birthday, this is my gift to you. I know how you want to go on adventures, so I made this little quest for you. Hopefully after you find this you can give me a great big hug and then we can eat whatever mom made us. I hope you like my picture, the candies I FORCED mom to make you, and this note. You owe me for the candies sis, mom made me work all day for those. Well, Happy birthday bud, love you always.
- Your brother.
