Diary
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:Lina:
It was one of the first things I asked Fia, when I was feeling a little better. She said that it was understandable that I would be confused, considering that the two of them live together, but that no, she and Lina aren't actually related. And then she told me the rest of the story.
Fia is the granddaughter of Graham, the village elder. When she was much younger--apparently this was at least nine or ten years ago--she was walking in the woods that surrounded Elendia when she came upon an abandoned child there; a little girl who was only about two or three years old. Being Fia, she brought the girl back to her village.
Supposedly, it caused a pretty big uproar, because no one knew where Lina (it was her, after all) could have come from. She only sort of knew how to talk, so she couldn't tell them what had happened, and no one could find any village nearby that had lost a child recently. Graham contacted the Arcs of Rosalina, who did a search over most of Riviera, but they came back empty-handed. So Fia's parents decided that they were going to keep Lina instead.
Even though she was so little, some of Lina's speech patterns and behaviors had already been set (which explains a few things, such as the way she's always talking about herself in the third person and her obsession with fruit and treasure...), so you could still tell that she's not really from around here, but she grew up considering Elendia her home and Fia's family hers, in a way. She doesn't call Fia her sister, which is why I originally asked, but they act sort of between sisters and friends.
Lina's a crazy little kid. She runs around with so much energy, it almost makes me feel old... she dresses mostly in black and yellow, making her look almost like some hyperactive little butterfly. She has bright orange hair that she puts up in double ponytails, and carries around a huge longbow that I don't know if I could even fire accurately. But from the way Fia tells it, Lina's actually the best shot in Elendia, and I've learned by now that you can pretty much trust the things that Fia says. She has really big, sort of light brown eyes--I can't remember very much yet, but I have the feeling that I've never seen eyes like those before. All the brown eyes I'm used to seeing are very dark, or hazel.
She's a con artist, too. I found a fruit (she called it an Applecot) one day in the walkway around the giant tree that supports most of Elendia, and I was going to take it home for Fia to cook in something, but Lina saw me with it before I had the chance. She came up to me, and didn't say anything but just sort of looked at me out of those huge eyes, getting kind of teary, until I just couldn't stand it and handed over the fruit. It was only after she'd walked off munching on it that I realized I'd been had.
Well, that's not to say that she doesn't have her good sides, too. For one thing, Lina's actually pretty cute, in a little-kid sort of way. For another (and this is probably just because she's so obsessed with treasure, but still) she has the most amazing eye for useful or intriguing things. One day, she came home bouncing around because she'd found this odd little chain pendant in the woods where she'd found me. It was a gold chain with smoky blue beads fixed at equal lengths all down it and a golden cross with a smooth blue lapis lazuli where the two pieces of metal fused directly opposite the clasp. It was broken--the chain had come apart halfway between the pendant and clasp--but still really cool, and also kind of scary because when she let me look at it, my hands went automatically from bead to bead, like I'd done it a lot of times before. I think it may have been mine, from before I fell. Fia says that that kind of pendant is called a rosary.
I may not be much closer to getting my memories back... but at least here in Elendia, I'm getting to have good friends, like Lina and Fia.
Judging by the scars on my back and the intense headaches I get whenever I try to remember things... I may need friends like them very soon...