“I was playing with my dog in the back streets of Kenabres the day I was taken… I was only five years old. The cultists came, and took me and several of my friends. As far as I can tell now, it was some sort of sleep spell.”
“We woke up, finding ourselves to be nine years old. The cultists had kept us magically asleep long enough for us to mature. We were to be used in some sort of sinister summoning ritual, something to summon a creature so big that it would widen the Worldwound itself. It could not be summoned without sacrifice.”
The lass stops talking, letting the runes covering her arms tell the story of her rage that harrowing day. Sights and sounds emanate from her body, telling of the torture she endured in “preparation” for her sacrifice.
"The day of the Sacrifice, I felt sinister forces gathering around me... They spoke in Abyssal, and I was scared, because I could understand them clearly. When the head cultist came, he unchained me and brought me to the sacrificial chamber, where I saw the disemboweled bodies of all my friends. The cultist placed me on a stone table and raised the blood-red knife of a Demon. When he stabbed me, nothing happened, but I could feel myself change into something monstrous. I couldn't control myself, but I still felt a terrifying satisfaction when I grabbed the knife and eviscerated him in revenge. That memory still haunts me."
"When I came back, the entire neighborhood, seeing my new fangs and horns, collectively decided that I had eaten all my friends in order to gain power. How could they have pinned this on a nine-year-old girl?"
"The only one who accepted me back was Kyra, a sweet Angelblooded girl who I'd been friends with since before I was abducted. I was afraid of her, however. When she first saw me, a look of total distrust came over her, and she put a hand on her temple longsword. I had to talk to her to make her stop leering at me."
"That was when I decided to join the Crusades. I wish now to close up the worldwound, to protect people - perhaps even in the name of Iomedae. I wish to stop anyone from going through what I went through."
