All the information about Root and Holly's pasts comes my own brain (that's
kinda scary) and the fact that Holly's dad is dead, Foaly commented in the
first book "but, sir, your training was over 500 years ago and you were no
spring chicken then", and the fact that Root's wife is never mentioned.
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Julius Root was sitting on his sofa staring at his moonometer, willing the time to pass faster.
It was too quiet here. It was his third day of vacation and there was absolutely nothing to do. He had to get out of the house.
He left and began to walk around Haven without even bothering to put his coat on.
He wasn't normally home this much. He kept to the office. Home was just.depressing. As he passed by Spud's Spud Emporium he quickened his pace. There were too many memories. He remembered what had first made him want to join the LEP.
It was on this very block that his wife had been murdered. And his daughter. His daughter had only been around Holly's age.
A bad gang of goblins, with softnose lasers got them. Those lasers were designed to kill. They were now outlawed and most of them destroyed.
It was after this attack that he joined the LEP. He had a reason to fight. He knew Short had her reasons for joining the LEP too. Her father had been a great officer. If Root's memory served him right, he'd been a Lieutenant, and part of the Retrieval squad. Holly had adored her father and wanted to be like him. But just over twenty years ago things went sour on one of his missions and he lost his life.
Root sighed. They all had their reasons.
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Julius Root was sitting on his sofa staring at his moonometer, willing the time to pass faster.
It was too quiet here. It was his third day of vacation and there was absolutely nothing to do. He had to get out of the house.
He left and began to walk around Haven without even bothering to put his coat on.
He wasn't normally home this much. He kept to the office. Home was just.depressing. As he passed by Spud's Spud Emporium he quickened his pace. There were too many memories. He remembered what had first made him want to join the LEP.
It was on this very block that his wife had been murdered. And his daughter. His daughter had only been around Holly's age.
A bad gang of goblins, with softnose lasers got them. Those lasers were designed to kill. They were now outlawed and most of them destroyed.
It was after this attack that he joined the LEP. He had a reason to fight. He knew Short had her reasons for joining the LEP too. Her father had been a great officer. If Root's memory served him right, he'd been a Lieutenant, and part of the Retrieval squad. Holly had adored her father and wanted to be like him. But just over twenty years ago things went sour on one of his missions and he lost his life.
Root sighed. They all had their reasons.