Thunder rumbled on the distant horizon as a new mother cried out in childbirth. She was young and petit and the pregnancy had not been easy for her. Giving one last shove the screams of the infant rent the night air competing with the thunder to be heard. The father who was pacing the throne room floor stopped abruptly his little green adviser bumping in to his knees but before he could ask why his master had stopped the lord had already flown from the room. As the child was held up to the light to show every one present the fine silver fuzz and the pink stripes rapped around its shoulders and hips its father walked in, took one look and turned and walked out of the room in disgust for his first born had been born a girl child. She let out a tremendous wail calling for her mother; Rin took her first born shushing the babe. the attendant asked "what will you name her my lady." "She will be called Kiara for it means daughter of the moon and she is the child of the great Tiyouki and she will be a great warrior one day just like her father." The nurse gave the women a doubtful look but said nothing maybe thought the nurse she can over come the odds like her mother said but she rather doubted it.
It was Kiara's birthday and yet no one was celebrating. there was no party for the young princess there where no laughing, congratulating guests, she stood in the door way of the throne room looking on as her father laughed an talked to the twins Zearel and Tawln her younger siblings. No one noticed the young Halfling standing there quietly staring into a family she felt she didn't belong. Her father never played this way with her she never got such attention from him. No she was the 'girl' as much as it pained her mother to hear her mate call their own first born that. she could not put a stop to it. Kiara sighed at her father's pettiness. She was not half human she had her mothers elf blood running through her. the combination of the youki and elvish in her had made it hard when she could not control her self for she would have random power surges. And the only other reason to dislike her was that she was a female. Between the two faults she didn't think she had much of any faults but this was her father they were talking about he had never been what you would call logical. Just then she felt a tap on her shoulder "happy thirtieth birthday Kiara. You still look like your only ten." Her friend Caritan joked. Kiara just gave him a haughty look. "Don't be ridiculous you know that I don't age like you humans do." "My, my more and more like your father every day." He sneered back. Looking at the two you would not think they where friends but that wasn't so they where best of buds even when they where harping on each other. "Kiara." Her fathers voice rang out over the almost empty hall of marble. Kiara turned to look at her father quickly clearing her face of all expression. "Yes, ada?" "You were not told you could leave your studies go and finish and for leaving you can tell your sensei that you have fifty extra sword kata." "Yes, ada." With that she turned and left the room the noise of her laughing siblings fallowing her down the hall. Yes no one was celebrating her birthday and it seamed only one remembered it and it want even her father.