It is a beautiful spring morning. Song birds trill out sweet melodies as butterflies flit from flower to flower on a warm breeze carrying the scent of the distant ocean. Children laugh and play while adorable puppies and fluffy kittens frolic about in the fresh spring grass. There are bunnies bouncing after one another in a merry game of chase. Lambs and wolf cubs sleep together in blissful harmony. There’s a unicorn too, officially marking this as the most perfect and wonderful morning in the history of all mornings.
The meteor that crashes down transforming the scene into a molten wasteland of charred innocence is relatively small. Unfortunately for the bunnies and kittens, it was more than enough meteor to gouge out of the earth a smoldering abyss akin to one of Dante’s seven levels of hell. Space debris can be impressively efficient in that way.
Out of the scorched remnants of the once glorious morning climbs a small girl. Her hair is dishevelled and her shoes are quite muddy (which will no doubt inspire a lengthy lecture from her mother), but she is otherwise unharmed. She idly picks a piece of what may have been unicorn from her hair and surveys the destruction around her. Tears and hysteria follow.
The girl leads a relatively normal life. Despite the local paper applauding her survival as a miracle, she is still regularly scolded by her mother about school, skinned knees, and chores. Several fish and two gerbils have ‘gone to live on a really nice farm in the country’ shortly after she’s lost interest in them. She is very good at gardening.
In November, shortly after her twelfth birthday the old family cat, Mr. Whiskers, falls ill. The girl finds him in his last moments lying under an ancient willow tree. She scoops him up in her arms and begs him not to leave her - Mr. Whiskers kindly obliges. Thrilled, yet terrified, by the cats sudden recovery the girl goes over to her little garden that she so lovingly cares for. She asks the summer flowers to bloom and small sprouts begin breaking out of the Fall earth.
The girl spends the next several years training her ability to manipulate 'life energy'. She learns how to heal injuries and how to inflict wounds. She is never certain if her abilities are natural or caused by the mysterious meteor, but she likes to believe it was a gift from the unicorn. She is currently seeking out other people with strange abilities in the hopes of aiding them. After all, everyone loves a healer.
