Catarina ran away from the dangers trailing behind her, tears in her eyes and a sick feeling in her stomach. With her parents dead and her three sisters nowhere to be found, how she was running alone through the streets now was beyond her. Everything that had just happened seemed like a blur. It all happened so quickly yet painfully slow at the same time. With only 14 years of knowledge packed into her brain at the time, all Catalina had to know now was that she was on her own. She climbed up into a rooftop overlooking the gleaming lights of New York and tried to slow her quick breaths. She just stared for a moment, trying to make sense of the situation that just went down. It was then that the clouds of her mind cleared and she knew something that she hadn't known before.
"I'll never let it happen again. I promise," she told herself slowly.