Siara (written by Olivia Wang)

by Olivia Wang

Her name is Siara, she used to be the best spy in the secret service. Her black appearance makes her dart in the dark. Her observant mind makes her find every detail when she carries out a mission.

她的名字是Siara，她曾經是神秘特務組織最出色的特務之一，黑色的外表讓她在黑暗中行走如風，而細膩的心思讓她在進行各種任務時，都能很好的把握住每個細節。

One night, there was a child kidnapping case. Siara followed the clues to a laboratory. In the laboratory, there were many potions. When she tried to understand this situation, suddenly, a bad guy came out and fought her. The bad guy was wearing a white robe and had long gray hair.

有一次晚上，城市發生了一起兒童綁架案，正在執行任務的Siara跟隨著案發現場的線索來到了一間實驗室，實驗室裡佈滿了各式各樣的藥水，正當她在消化著眼前的訊息時，突然間! 壞人出現了，壞人身著白色長袍，留著一頭銀白色長髮。

During the fierce fight between the bad guy and Siara, Siara accidentally swallowed a potion. The potion tasted sweet and sour. It flowed down her throat and into her body. After a moment, she felt something change. It felt like a power had woken up slowly in her body. However, the bad guy wanted to attack Siara from behind while she was not paying attention, and suddenly she heard a weird voice say “Knock her out!”. She turned back and saw that the bad guy was holding a wooden stick and then he tried to attack her. Siara quickly dodged the stick, and defeated the bad guy. The weird voice appeared again and said ”Fortunately, I hid people in the secret base of Secret Mountain, they will never find the children.” After she heard it, she asked in surprise, “In the secret base of Secret Mountain?”. The bad guy looked at her equally surprised and said “You can hear what I’m thinking about?”. It turns out, the potion stimulated Siara's potential, so the potion strengthened her attentive qualities to the extent that it became the superpower of mind reading.

在雙方激烈的打鬥過程中，Siara不小心誤食了一瓶藥水，一股酸酸甜甜的味道順著喉嚨流進她的身體，不過片刻的功夫，Siara感覺到身體的變化，彷彿有一股力量正在她體內慢慢覺醒。 而這時，壞人正想趁著Siara不注意時從背後偷襲她，突然間，Siara聽到身後傳來一個奇怪的聲音，「敲暈她 !」，她快速的轉過頭來，看見壞人正拿著棒子準備敲暈她，她矯健的躲開棒子，並將壞人制伏在地。這時，奇怪的聲音又出現了，「還好我把人藏在秘密山的秘密基地了，他們絕對找不到的」，聽到這，Siara開口問「秘密山的秘密倉庫?，壞人一臉驚訝的看著她，「你聽得到我在想什麼?!」，原來那杯藥水會激發狗狗的潛能，藥水就是因為Siara原本心思細膩的特質，進而發展成了讀心術。

She had been a spy for a really long time, so she gradually got used to living like a shadow. She always goes around and helps people, but no one ever notices her. Every time she finishes her mission, she will hide in the alley and look at the people playing in the sun. Sometimes, she will want to play with them but she always just stands in the alley. She always looks forward to someone coming to invite her to join them, but people just always pass in front of her. One day, Siara was hiding in an alley as usual and looking at people curiously. Suddenly, a child ran to her. The child’s parents followed the child into the alley. When they saw Siara, they were very surprised there was a dog in the alley. They squatted down slowly, and tried to touch her. Siara was very happy someone came to her, so she walked closer to the child until the child could touch her. This afternoon Siara and that family both had a good time. When she went back to her little cardboard house, she had a strong feeling. She wanted to have a family, so she gave herself a new mission which was to help herself to find a family. The next morning, she woke up very early and went to the Ruifang animal shelter to start her new mission.

不過，長期進行著秘密任務，讓她漸漸習慣了像一個影子般的生活，她總是在人們身邊默默付出，卻從來不曾有人注意到她。每次當她一結束任務，她都會躲在小巷裡小心翼翼地注視著在陽光下玩耍的人們，有時她會希望能夠加入他們，但每到最後她都終究站在原地，然後在心裡默默期待著或許有一個人會來帶著她一起到陽光下生活，但是她的期待從未實現過，人們都只是從她面前走過，從未停留。有一天，當Siara一如往常的站在巷子裡望向人們時，突然，一個小孩向她跑了過來，而孩子的父母也隨著小孩來到了小巷，當他們看見Siara時，他們感到非常驚訝，這種地方竟然有動物居住，接著他們慢慢蹲下，想試著摸摸Siara，Siara對於人們的到來感到非常開心，所以她也向小孩靠近一些，直到一個小孩可以碰到她的位置才再次坐下。這個下午Siara和這個家庭都擁有了一段美好的時光。當Siara再次回到她的紙板屋時，她下定決心，她想要有一個家，所以她給了自己一個新任務“幫自己找一個家”，隔天一大早，Siara早早起床並一路走到了瑞芳收容所，開啟了她的新任務。

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