(40 Years after Synshlee's Death)
She was born during the night, a violent storm raging above the shining city of Aden. Her mother was a Priestess, her father, a Priest. She was a taboo child, as those devoted fully to the teachings of Einhasad were to give up such base desires. Ashamed at them, the head Bishop separated the two, sending the father away from the church and hiding the mother away from prying eyes during her pregnancy.
The priestess cried out from around the bite wood the nun midwife had placed in her mouth, the thunder following her voice and drowning out the cries of the baby as she came forth to the world. The Bishop blessed the child as she was cleaned, and she was rushed from the house by the nun midwife and out the city gates. Huddled by a cart waited a poor farmer and his wife, the nun placing the still-crying babe in the wife's arms. The farmer then snapped his oxen to move, and they hurried away from Aden, lest they be seen. The priestess, left alone now in the little house, secretly named her baby, and wept, as the child would never know that name.
The name she would know, however, would be "Sharmin".
