Chapter 19

In the forest, Isabela would wake up and start doing her chores while her grandparents are still sleeping. There are times when Issa would harvest a fruit and along the way, there are monsters she encountered. At first she was not used to it and was always beaten into pulp, but in her everyday practice she gained more knowledge, gained more strength and she was becoming more stronger. Beauty didn't exists in her would, it was a matter of just surviving. Nothing else matter. When Isabela was out of the forest and met new people, she can't help but to compare her life to others. They were carefree and unafraid. They have powers, while here she is trying to fit in and trying to hard to get stronger because she doesn't have any power. While being busy, she has forgotten how to take care of her self and how to pamper herself. Little by little Isabela became insecure of how others look she she is being tease of how boyish she was. Nobody taught her to be a girly-girl. Sheil's book introdu