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Akata was a happy child, growing up in forests of Godinja the Davocar held no terrors for her as long as it were treated with the proper respect. What came out of the forest to destroy this illusion she never knew, one moment there was a happy family taking goods to market, the next they were dismembered bodies scattered across the trail and the children carried away across the shoulders of something vast that smelled of damp soil and leaf mould.

The girl dreams.
She sits alone in the forest and is hungry but there are berries here and roots, even fruit though some she must not touch, how she knows she doesn't know, but know she does.
She sits alone in the forest and is lonely but there are creatures here, friendly fury creatures, and reptiles and even birds though some she must not touch, how she knows she doesn't know, but know she does.
She sits in the forest, no longer alone but frightened, there are things here with teeth and thorns and claws and horns but she knows how to hide, how she knows she doesn't know, but know she does.
She sits in the forest and is hurt, and is angry, and is too hot and too cold, too big and too small but she knows how to deal with all of these things, how she knows she doesn't know, but know she does.
She sits in the forest and yearns for her own kind but knows, nothing  .  .  .

The girl is slight, wiry, little more than an unkempt child yet the intense stare of her cold blue eyes holds the wisdom of ages.

Akata goes barefoot and her clothing is an assortment of rags, mosses, the pelts of small animals and a varied selection of barks, all held together by prayers and spider silk. The garment is much adorned with the bones and skulls of small birds, reptiles and mammals along with feathers, pebbles, animal tails, nuts, dried berries and herbs, which she frequently adds to or rearranges while muttering under her breath.

Her only possessions seem to be a rather crude looking bow, a handful of not particularly straight arrows with fire hardened tips and a curved and jagged dagger, formed from part of some huge insect's mandible.
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