I lived with my twin sister, Rieta, my mother, Arctic Jewel, and my father, Kairon, in a small, rundown house, well, more like a cabin, in a forest, far from society. Rieta and I never really got along, but everything was fine otherwise. That is, until she came home with some guy; a Lizardfolk named Cross. He was the only person Rieta ever paid any attention to whenever he was around, which was very often. When he would come by, he almost always stayed the night with Rieta. I never tried to think of what they might have been doing... After a few months, things started to change. Cross became extremely irritable and Rieta hardly ever left her room. If she did, it was when nobody was around and only to grab some food before quickly returning to her room. One time, I saw her going to the kitchen and noticed that there were a bunch of bruises all over her arms, legs, face, just... everywhere. I felt sick to my stomach and ran back to my room before she could notice me. The next day, after Cross had left, I went straight to Rieta's room, pleading for her to let me in. It took a while, but she eventually opened her door. Once I was able to see the bruises up close like that, I felt even more sickened and enraged at Cross. After an even longer while, I finally managed to persuade her to tell me what happened. Through her sobs, Rieta told me of all the ways Cross had been abusing and beating her and... something else that made my heart sink. Cross threatened her that if she ever told anyone what he was doing to her, he would kill them. As soon as she finished explaining, she started to panic, terrified out of her mind that he would kill me. I reassured her that I would be fine and hesitantly left her room to go tell our parents as well. The following day, my mother and father were standing outside the house, waiting for Cross to come back. They didn't want me to get involved, so they told me to stay inside, but I just couldn't sit still and wanted revenge for my sister as well. I snuck outside and hid behind a tree not too far from them. An hour passed and finally, the fiend showed up. However, he must have known that something was going to happen while he was gone. With steady, deliberate steps, he dragged an axe along behind him. It was... brutal to say the least. He killed my mother first and, while my father rushed over to her body, Cross chopped his head right off, killing him instantly. And there I was... Standing behind that tree like an idiot, unable to move, say, or do anything. It was only after my father's lifeless body flopped down on top of my mother's that I finally found the strength to move, my rage boiling over. What happened after that was all a blur. All I remembered next was that I had the axe in my hands and I was panting heavily. Every fiber of my being was yelling, screaming at me to kill Cross, to avenge my family, but... I couldn't. All I could do was merely threaten him to leave and never return. To my surprise, he actually did. Frightened that he might come back with another weapon to finish me and Rieta off, I rushed inside, grabbed Rieta, and hurried her outside. We didn't even get a chance to mourn our parents' deaths, let alone bury them. All we could do was run. Run, run, and run, as fast as we could, as far away as we could. We were never able to settle down anywhere, whether from prejudice, fear that Cross might find us, or both, we just kept moving from town to town, often times having to sleep in the wilderness. The only thing I had on me was the axe that Cross used, so it was the only weapon I had to use to hunt for food so Rieta and I could survive. It was difficult, not just physically, but especially mentally draining. As long as we had each other, we made do. This is, until one day. We were sleeping in a forest that night, but when I woke up... Rieta was nowhere to be found. I've been searching for her ever since...