Erica is an orphan. She was abandoned when she was six because her parents were taken to jail for something she doesn't remember. She is special, because she can communicate with nature
I remember the earthquake as if it was yesterday. First, the ground started shaking. Then, some trees fell down. All of the pain from every single living thing all came to me. Usually, all their joy was in my heart, but today, there was none. Actually, no. There was a tiny bit of joy in a living creature somewhere around us. But what or who was it??? It wasn't a tree for sure; their joy felt more... bright. This joy was a dark joy; a joy caused by others' unhappiness. The animals joy felt like that sometimes too, like when the carnivores killed their prey. But that was different too, it was more a joy caused by pride. The joy I was feeling was just... different.
Over the past years, from when the earthquakes first started to now, I had learned a lot. I knew things like how to identify where feelings came from in others, how to listen to the trees and respond, how to speak many animal languages, and how to be fair. These qualities sometimes helped me in the earthquakes, but I knew I needed to practice them more. Everyday, I was becoming stronger, but so were the earthquakes. I didn't understand. How could Mother Nature do this? Well, I was Daughter of Nature, but my mother was certainly NOT Mother Nature. Or... Was it like that story I had heard about a certain person named God was the ruler of everything, and then he had a son, but his son had two fathers??? Well, it sure sounded like it, except with different names and the opposite gender. I believed the ruler of everything and the creator was Mother Nature, and instead of Jesus, the name of the creator's daughter was Erica??? (sorry, I love putting three question marks everywhere)
My powers got stronger as the time went by, but I didn't know if it was because of time, practice, death of living creatures, or life of living creatures.
