Prologue: Glower of the Half-Moon
Introduction Arc
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Scene 1
Sevrenna sighed for what felt like the thousandth time as she dredged her feet along the open field of Aselia. The little youth carried as big a bundle of sticks as she could physically keep together without fear of dropping; having been sent by her arguing mother and father to grab firewood for the house, she was thankful for being out of their miserable way...
And yet she felt sad for her older brother, always being caught in the middle of their squabbles.
As she neared the end of the field itself, her eyes were inevitably drawn down to an unusually beautiful flower lying just next to her. With a single blink of her eyes she looked back down at the twigs and sticks she carried before swiftly placing them down and picking the flower up. As she twirled it around her fingers, she couldn't help but smile down at it, imagining her brother's reaction to the flower.
It would barely be a way to thank him for all of his patience with her... but it would be a start.
Quickly pocketing the flower she bent back down to pick up the twigs and sticks, her long black hair drooping down with her sudden movement as she did so. Picking up her pace she couldn't help but intensify the smile growing on her face as she thought of her elder sibling. However, as she passed the manned gates her smile was dashed by the sudden glare of the half-moon above. Sevrenna's eyes involuntarily winced as she realised just how late it was; she immediately began to pick up her pace, concern gnawing at her young mind.
As she passed through the relatively quiet streets of Aselia Castle Town she turned into an alley-way; her normal route home. Passing through as quickly as she could, she soon found a definitive lack of people and her light concern soon began to gradually boil into tense uneasiness. She furrowed her brow as she turned one final time into the inside street her house lay in. Her eyes widened as she dropped the twigs and sticks she carried, falling to the cobbled ground in a noisy mess, regarding the shocking sight before her.
Her house right at the end of the street before her, up in a show of flames and smoke.
"No!" She couldn't help but blurt out before she broke into a run; she tripped over her basic purple dress as she made the final approach, falling to her face. After her chin hit the cobbled street pavement below her she could only turn her gaze skyward at the rising smoke and flames and the one strange sight beheld to her.
A shadowy figure stood with perfect posture, leaning down on the burning mess of stone and straw. She could barely hear the shadow laugh above the din of her beloved home's fate. As if suddenly keen to her clumsy presence, the unidentified figure suddenly snapped its head around to face her. Seemingly a man, judged by its deep voice, his eyes glared down at her through narrow slitted eyes. As if to add further intimidation to his leering appearance, the half-moon that was hanging so proudly in the sky seemed almost to glower down on her as hatefully as he did.
Time seemed to slow to a complete halt for Sevrenna as she mixed her terrified gaze with the eyeing and glaring figure before, finally, he seemed to react. Giving her no answers and very little acknowledgement whatsoever, the unnamed and unidentified shadowy figure suddenly disappeared from her untrained eye, leaving behind a mere after-image in his wake. Sevrenna's eyes were slowly drawn back down to the burning home she once grew up in. As she watched the flames spark and crackle before her, realisation finally dawned on her.
Her once arguing parents were now gone.
As were her only other living relative; her older brother.
Tears finally began to sting at her eyes; she could do little else but stare at the source of her sorrow, knelt down in the poorest part of Aselia Castle Town.