After my father abandoned me on the island filled with adders, my life was dreadful. I was forever avoiding the accursed snakes! The good part was that I still had my weapons, my long cutlass, my throwing knives, and my crossbow. Occasionally I would shoot a wood pigeon, and that was when I had a feast. Sometimes I would stab fish with my cutlass, but most of the time I lived on roots. The island did not even have berries on it. I learned to know the feeling of hunger, something I had never known before because my father had almost spoiled me on the ship. After all, he was the captain, and I WAS his daughter. One day I managed to kill a very small adder, and that was the first time I actually smiled since I was left on the island. I was crazy after that, thinking I could kill all the adders, but after that day I only killed two more. But every day I practiced my archery, and soon I was able to bring down every woodpigeon I saw. I was surviving better after that, and I had grown used to the fact that I was going to stay on the island the rest of my life. But then I saw a ship.