Ophelia and Rosa's Story: Family Strife
For the sake of not switching back and forth between Ophelia and Rosa, I will just have Ophelia narrate this. Rosa will narrate another story.
My name is Ophelia Boaz, my younger sister, Rosa and I were born in Argentina. Our parents were two South American Lux Veritatis knights. The late Cabal member, Kristina Boaz was our father's sister. When Rosa was only six years old, our parents died in an accident. Tia Kristina took us in and raised us the best that she could. I was twelve when she was asked to join the Cabal; I heard that Eckhardt and Karel threatened her in order to make her join. My aunt wasn't truly a monster, but she had to keep us safe. We had to live in the Strahov for two years until Tia Kristina found a Lux Veritatis group that would take us in, but Eckhardt found out and planned to kill us, that way my faction would die out completely. She found one in America; my father knew the group's doctor and he managed to talk to the leader at that time about taking us in. Once it was agreed. Tia Kristina had to find a way to sneak us out of the Strahov. She came up with a simple plan, cause a problem with the power and release a Proto-Nephilim. Of course, the Proto wouldn't actually be free in the Sanatorium, but loose in the maximum containment area. All the guards would be sent to deal with that problem and we could escape through the loading docks. Outside of the Strahov, the leader of our new faction would be waiting for us. Tia knew of a lesser known passage from the Sanatorium to the loading docks. It was a winding tunnel going under most of the Strahov. It was used to transport dead inmates from the sanitarium. Rosa and I were ready to run for the tunnel and towards freedom. We heard yelling in Czech and the guards' heavy boots running down the halls towards the Maximum Containment Area. Once the yelling and running stopped, I took Rosa's hand and ran to an empty stairwell. There was a door that usually was bolted and locked with a padlock, but for once the padlock and bolt were removed. I suppose it was Tia Kristina who removed it. I opened the door and Rosa and I stared into a dark, dank, and dreary tunnel. Rosa refused to move as I tried pulling her into the tunnel. "I want to stay with Tia Kristina!" She cried. I had to explain to her that if we stayed, Eckhardt would kill us. Three minutes of pulling teeth later, we finally stepped foot into the tunnel. The tunnel was pitch black, I could barely see the pair of glasses I had over my nose. Eventually, Rosa and I found a door, light streamed through the gap in the bottom of it. I opened the door and stepped outside of the Strahov for the first time in two years. Waiting there were two men, one whom I'd later know as Lord Konstantin Huissturm and the other, the Lux Veritatis doctor who took me and my sister in. We knew him as Doctor Strauss. He was actually an old friend of my aunt's. It took time to leave the Czech Republic; immigration to America was a process. It took several years for both of us to become permanent U.S. citizens too. A few years later, Dr. Strauss was killed along with Lord Huissturm and Sandra's husband Johnathan. I again was faced with raising my little sister and since I had just gotten my medical license, I became the Huissturm Faction doctor. When Kurtis, my closest friend returned to the faction, I learned of what Eckhardt did to my aunt and how Kurtis had to kill her. Eckhardt is lucky that Karel betrayed him, or he would have to deal with true suffering under my hand. It might sound awful, but I cannot forgive the man who mutated my aunt and probably gave the order to destroy my faction, leading to my little sister and me to live in the Strahov and ultimately leaving me with only one relative I have left, alive. My family life has been full of strife and I will aid my new faction until no other Lux Veritatis knights or anyone else will not have to lose their family members the way Rosa and I have.