Everything had changed since Vobar Artregoni came to the Shulakasu - or as it is known in human tongue, the Sanctuary Chasms. School had been completely cancelled, and now young Vakshi were required to stay at home at all times, and were required to be supervised by one of their parents, while the other would be out working to protect the caverns. Traps were placed out by the entrance, and all Lashma crystals were covered in rocks. They prepared barricades for their homes, and equipped themselves with tools and armour.


Cai hated it. Cai despised it. She dreamed of being a warrior and an adventurer, but instead she was trapped inside her parent’s cavern. She hated spending her whole day in one boring place so much, she’d rather go and have history class.

With time, she only became more and more bored, until she decided she would break out. She spent a long time to think of an elaborate plan, where nobody would notice her leave - but such a plan simply didn’t exist. Ultimately, she settled for something far simpler.

“Hey, what’s that over there?” Cai shouted pointing to the grey rocks that made up the walls of the cavern.

“What?” her parent turned around to check, “I don’t see anything…”

“No, look closer!” Cai yelled.

And so her parent walked up the rocks and inspected it, before turning around and saying, with a confused face, “there really isn’t anything here- Cai? Cai! Where are you?! Oh, you have gotta be sliming kidding me!”


Cai was quite short and small, so sneaking past everybody else was quite a simple thing to do, and soon she had made her way to the very top, outside of Shulakasu. She was the first Vakshi in thousands of generations to have ever left the cave and… it was beautiful.



The luscious green grass, and the beautiful multi coloured flowers were completely foreign to a Vakshi, and it was so visually distinct compared to their dull grey rocks and pretty crystals. It was the most beautiful place she’d ever seen. She ran free and wild through the beautiful never ending multicoloured field, or as the humans call it - the Duchy of Numihlub, meaning paradise.

But the beauty was not going to last for much longer. A single snowflake landed on a pretty blue flower in the field. The long Winter was on its way. And it would destroy every single flower and every single blade of grass in Numihlub, and nothing would get in its way.