In order to understand Kate, you’d have to know her deepest secret. One which she was afraid to let anyone find out, quite frankly because she didn’t understand it completely herself. All she knew, was that every now and then there was a voice in her head. One which did not belong to her.

This voice called herself Cara. From Cara, Kate learned many things, except why Cara was there. Kate was very young, and Cara was not. She told Kate she was an adult where she came from. Kate often imagined a place that was snowy, with mountains and a far away treasure which she imagined Cara had to find. Though Cara repeatedly told her these things weren’t at all accurate.

Despite the fact that Cara lived inside Kate’s head, that wasn’t the oddest thing about her. What was even more odd than this, was the fact that she spoke in different languages. Ones which to others sounded strange. But to Kate, having heard them since before she was born, they came naturally to her, as if she’d made them up herself. Though she knew she hadn’t. At times she worried that she was going crazy. After all, everyone she knew thought hearing voices was a bad sign. Yet a feeling stronger than that worry, and more powerful than the opinions of her friends, told her that Cara was real, whats more, her instinct told her that Cara needed her help.

So she kept quiet about Cara as she grew. Hoping that one day, she’d be able to give her the real help she needed. Then one day when she was three, her mother was gone. It wasn’t quite the fact that she hadn’t seen her mother leave that surprised her. The night before she’d seen her mother leave with a bag out the front door. More over the thing that surprised her, was that she didn’t come back. Though being only two, she wasn’t sure exactly how to phrase the question. Cara repeatedly insisted that her mother was probably on a business trip. Though as the months past, Kate began to doubt it.

Different people would come to watch Kate and her older brother and sisters. One whom lived right across the street. Kate often saw her taking money out of her fathers money jars. It disturbed her, that this girl was taking things from her father, but there wasn’t much she could do about it. She didn’t often get time to talk with him, and he didn’t seem to understand most of what she said.