Ruby: A Journey into Adulthood
Our village lay deep within the mountains, hidden away from the outside world, where ruby mines ran through the earth.
There was an old legend that said if one could craft an entire bed from ruby and sleep on it long enough, it would grant eternal youth.
Ruby was rare and even harder to mine, but that was exactly why our village was so prosperous.
Yet, for all our wealth, our village was a strange place. There were no men here, only women.
I had two older sisters, but I should have had three older brothers as well. They were all drowned at birth.