Legacy: Marina
The Official Biography of Marina Ricardo, 7th Loric Elder, New Generation.
This biography was pulled together by various Garde, Cepan and humans alike, and is meant to be a tribute to our beloved Number Seven. Live well in the After, Marina, surrounded by peace.
Dedicated to Marina Ricardo (1993 - 2080), may you Rest In Peace. Thank you for your sacrifice, our beloved friend.
Signed: Sarah and John Hart-Smith, Maren Elizabeth Goode, Sam Goode, Stanley Worthington and Ella Crayton.
We will never forget you, our Queen of the Sea.
Age: 0
This is the picture: a man, a woman, both Loric, both Cepan. The woman's name is Edie, the man's name is Tarren. Together ten years, best friends since birth, they were both head over heels for one another.
Edie is pregnant, eight and a half months, two weeks before the baby is due, but that doesn't stop her going into labour mid-way through her Father-in-laws weekly roast. (They will later say the baby smelled his cooking and couldn't wait another second to try it).
It's a home birth, as has been the custom on Lorien for many years. In total there are seven people present (the irony will be lost to time and tragedy).
The seven people are, Edie herself (the soon to be mother), Tarren (by his wife's side until the end), Atticus (Edie's Father), Samma (Edie's Mother), Onna (Tarren's Father), Patricia (Tarren's Mother), and a male Healer Garde named Wesley assisting with the birth.
The soon to be grandparents stand to the side, both pairs waiting to begin the birth ritual if it falls to them. Loric children generally stay with their parents for a year, more in unforeseen circumstances and then are raised by their grandparents until the age of sixteen.
If male, the child is raised by the mother's parents, and if female, by the father's parents.
Edie's breaths get deeper and deeper, and suddenly the seven people in the room become eight.
"It's a girl, it's a girl," These words are spoken by Tarren, who, holding his newborn daughter, is in tears, as is she. He passes the infant to his wife and for a moment, they are the picture of a perfect family, who could never be unbroken.
Soon enough, words are exchanged between Tarren's parents and the overjoyed couple as Edie's parents watch over and Wesley records the events in a handwritten book.
To conclude they give the girl a name, Nerice, after Edie's dead aunt.
Later they start to get visitors who bring gifts for the new child. One visitor, when enquiring after the baby's name, makes this comment:
"Nerice? That means from the sea, doesn't it?"
