Yksihw opened her eyes. Then she closed them; the world was quite a bright place, it seemed.

With a mumble and a groan, the young spirit sat up and rubbed her heavy eyes. Should she try opening them again? It was a bit too bright last time she tried, and it’s never nice to open your eyes when it’s too bright. Yksihw assumed so, anyway; she had never actually opened her eyes before the last time she tried. She should probably give it another try, though; especially seeing as she didn’t know if she could do anything else.

Ah! Wait! She had already managed to sit up, hadn’t she; that was something. But wait… what was ‘up’? Yksihw didn’t know. She would probably find out once she opened her eyes, though. And, with that, the whole eye opening business seemed very important indeed. What if she did it wrong? Why, she might not be able to do anything else other than sit up; and she wasn’t even sure what that was! Yksihw was getting very nervous. Maybe she should just forget the whole thing. It might not be that important anyway.

No, she thought. She had to do this; it was important! She had now decided. How could she not?

Ok: she was ready. She would open her eyes: on three!... Wait, what was ‘three’? Oh, forget it, she thought. Yksihw opened her eyes.

The world was, indeed, bright; but, for some reason her eyes didn’t hurt this time. Had it got darker? What was ‘darker’? There were so many questions. At least now she had got her eyes open she was on the right track to answering them. She decided it would help if she looked around: so she did.

There certainly were a lot of things in the world. Some things were bigger than Yksihw, while others were smaller. So that’s what big and small are! Yksihw was very pleased by this revelation. Oh! ‘Pleased’ – that feels nice, she thought. She would have to try and be ‘pleased’ more often: it was quite nice. Right now though, she thought it best if she devoted her time to finding out more about these things in the ‘world’.

Humm… ‘Time’? What is ‘time’? No, no… she defiantly didn’t have ‘time’ for that question right now; back to the big and small things, she decided.
On closer inspection, it seemed it wasn’t just how ‘big’ or ‘small’ things were that made them look different. They had a certain ‘brownness’ or ‘greenness’ about them too. Oh! What were these ‘browns’ and ‘greens’? Tastes? No, that didn’t seem right… Colours? Yes, that seemed like it fit; she decided that they were colours. She quite liked colours, she wondered if there were any more. She would have to get up and find out: so she did.

Standing up she took another gaze around at the world. Oh! She suddenly realised; this is what ‘up’ is. She was glad to finally know. Humm… ‘Glad’, that’s quite like ‘pleased’. She wondered for a moment about what else she could feel, until her wandering eyes gazed down. Ah, ‘down’; that must be the small of up: she decided. She was even more ‘Glad’ now; she was answering a lot of question.

Just as she was in the middle of feeling ‘glad’ and still looking ‘down’, her eyes spied a very odd thing. It was a sort of ‘not’ colour, with a ‘brown’ colour inside it. She had no idea what it was, but what ever it was; she new it was important and so she decided to pick it ‘up’.

When she did she found it felt very odd, indeed. It didn’t feel like ‘pleased’ or ‘glad’; this was completely different. It felt… cold? Yes, that would do for now; though she didn’t feel like she had completely answered that one, there were a lot more questions that needed answering.

What else was in the world? What did it feel like? What did it look like? She wondered for a while about what else might be in the world; though, eventually she decided it would be best if she moved around a little bit and found out: so she did.

It wasn’t long before she came across lots of other things that made her ask lots of other questions. She just wanted to answer them all! Could she? Yes, she was sure she could. She had answered so many already, after all, like ‘what is up?’. She would move around and answer all the questions she could! This was the start of her adventure! She didn’t know what an ‘adventure’ was, of course, but she defiantly thought she would find out soon.

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