So, I thought that I would do a short back story about Adam and Evelyn to start things off…

Evelyn Rosa had once been a famed singer in the sparkling city of Bridgeport. Her career was on the fast-track, but due to a severe country-wide economic collapse, her dreams of stardom came to a screeching halt.

With no money, and no hope of finding a promising job, Evelyn packed her bags and decided to head westward, back to the place of her childhood. She took with her on the train west only a few outfits, some hats, jewelry, a prized painting, and some flowers an admiring fan at her last show bestowed upon her.

Once on the train, she wondered what the future would hold for her. She didn’t know anyone out here—her time spent in the big city had caused her to lose contact with many of her old friends from back in her days of schooling. Even her parents were gone.

She didn’t realize until after she got off of the train that she had been dropped off in the middle of nowhere. There wasn’t even much of a station—just a shack inhabited by an old man and his horse (Not really, but for the sake of the story…) The people running the train didn’t even stop to help unpack her belongings from the cargo hold. She didn’t even have time to spin around and yell, “Stop!” to the conductor before the train took off again.

Seeing how stressed and devastated the young woman was, the old man in the shack sold off his mare, named Fillipa, to the fallen star. (Okay, in actuality, not long after I moved Adam and Evelyn onto their lot and built a few things did I go in and adopt a horse for free using their cell. But, for the sake of the story, I’ll pretend there was an old man who sold it to Evelyn.)

The mare was very gentle and took well to the strange woman. Evelyn was certainly lost, and wasn’t sure what path through the desert she needed to navigate to get back home. She was so desperate to find a place of belonging that she rode through the night, ignoring the fact that she had no water.

By early morning, she was visibly exhausted, not to mention severely dehydrated due to the pressure she put on herself to keep traveling through the night even though she didn’t know where she was going, the stress she endured from losing her job, and not having a home to go to. Her head became heavy and she started to slip off Fillipa.

As the sun started to inch its way up over the horizon, she thought she spotted a building in the distance. Maybe it was just her mind playing tricks on her, but she could have sworn she saw another horse rider approaching her as she blacked out…