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Homo sapiens weren't always the only humans on planet Earth. There were several other species of humans that existed at the same time as early sapiens. Most well-known are the Neanderthals, who most of us share some DNA with thanks to interbreeding. But even though we were able to have children with Neanderthals, they still vanished, and we're still around.
A few notes on historical accuracy: This is of course a work of fiction. There isn't any evidence of Neanderthal women interbreeding with Homo sapiens men (none of the Neanderthal DNA in our modern genome is mitochondrial), only Neanderthan men and sapiens women. Also, we're not sure that Neanderthals could speak the same way that we do, since we don't have a complete understanding of their physiology. This story is just for fun.
40,000 years ago, somewhere in modern day Eurasia...
You are a young woman of the human subspecies Homo neanderthalensis. The rest of your tribe, one of the last of its kind, has been wiped out by an avalanche. You have been wandering in the woods for some time, looking for either some hope of survival or a comfortable place to die. You come across a fire, tended by another human, but he is not one of your own. He is one of the newcomers--the ones who are weaker, but somehow more numerous and successful. They seem to multiply endlessly, while your numbers continue to shrink. You have found the campsite of a Homo sapiens, and with him, perhaps you've found something more... Hope.
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