Vieraslayer
Let's find out what Alvyne feels about Jote after being spared…
The Diary of Alvyne
I was wrong about Jote. Totally wrong. She isn't a monster. What my mother used to say was completely wrong! Jote didn't want to kill me. All the other Viera would've done it in an instant. I don't really understand, but I'm not complaining! The Viera-child my mother described is nothing like the Jote I know.
I could see that she didn't know what to do. She chose to spare me, and I'm grateful forever. If I was still a Vieraslayer, I wouldn't be anymore, all because of Jote sparing me! I can't believe I used to hate Viera.
I don't like that Rael Viera though. Nope-nope! It's understandable, because she hates Myko too, and Myko is my best friend. Had Jote killed me, Myko would've never forgiven her! I really like Jote now. I hope she's okay. She seems really sick and everything. Myko says that Jote has got all kinds of problems right now. She's retaining fluid, and she has bad morning sickness, and gestational diabetes… sheesh. She probably also couldn't deal with a guilty conscience, killing a helpless doggie/person/thing.
My mind is going over so many things right now. Many, many things. Most are about my future. Myko says that I should be a wood-warder like her. No Reena has ever been a wood-warder! Would any Viera train me? Most of them would rather see me dead. And there's the all-important issue of having a Reena in Eruyt Village.
Visiting Viera would be terrified and might even attack me. If I wander around in the Wood as I am, forget attacking me, they'd murder me and I'm not even allowed to defend myself since I can't hurt Viera! I can transform into a Viera and leave, but what if I get scared and howl or something? That's how the Viera figured out what I was here!
The Wood… she speaks to me. She is not mad at me. She's actually quite pleased with me. She says I am what the Reena-Kaana were meant to be. The Wood created my race to protect the Viera from coeurls and malboros and such. The rules say Reena and Viera could live in the same villages. The rules also say that no Reena shall ever hurt a Viera. How did we go from that to killing and eating them? And on another note, no Reena was ever to have sex with a Viera. Why did the Reena do that? I consider that torture!
Reena are allowed to leave the Mother Wood. It's so they can eliminate threats before they have a chance to get stronger or heal or anything. I love the Wood though. I think I will continue my search for surviving Reena here. Myko can help. If we find a Reena, she can tame it for me. She can't leave the Wood though, or she won't be allowed to come back. I don't want to take her from the Wood, and I won't, so we'll stay here together!
One of the Viera told me it has been a long time since they've felt safe enough to multiply again like they've started to do. Several of the Viera in the village besides Jote are pregnant. I do know a bit of medicine, actually. My father was a healer and he taught me a little bit. Perhaps I shouldn't be a wood-warder. Maybe being a healer is my true calling?
--Alvyne