<a class="postlink" href="http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz260/TimeKeys/Mysterious_Stranger_by_Savion.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/>Lilika "Lily" Masons<br/>18<br/><br/>It was a regular day. A young woman, walks along a train track. It had long since been deserted. It had once been used in the days of old. Back when cowboys and Indians ruled the wild west. But those days were long over with. Everyone lived almost equally within the world. Yet still she couldnâ€™t help wishing sheâ€™d been back in those days. She loved the openness of the wild west. And loved the challenges the native americans and cowboys went through. Loved the thrill of the hunt. For both prey and villans. All this had her thrilled and wishing hard that she could visit the past. Become part of the past.<br/><br/>She always dressed in her cowboy garbs for women. She wore her hair usually in two pigtails that were braided some of the time. Suddenly she trips. Falling down over a cliff. Thereâ€™d been an earthquake a hundred years ago that had made this track unusable ever again. The earth had separate. And a deep river had formed below. She begins to fall. Downwards. Down and down. Til she lands with a big splash in the water below. When she swims to the top of the water again she was floating in a creek that had been under the railroad tracks back in the wild west days. She spots something or someone heading her way on horseback. And she wonders if she is seeing a mirage. Those things caused by the sun when in its rays and heat too long.<br/><br/>She was a pale skinned native american girl. She dressed like a cowboy versus traditional native american garbs. She understood and fluently spoke the native american languages. Expecially Cherokee. Though she often was mistaken for one of the pale skins. It was fine with her. Sunkissed skin was paler than her people simply due to a genetic defect in her skin pigments. She stands up. Looking around and sees the person is still getting closer. She wonders if she hit her head when she got into the water. She did not yet realize she was in the past.