(Instead of starting this character off with a character write-up giving her back story, I am providing Alysane's backstory in the form of diary entries. This will likely be updated sporadically.)
A hastily scribbled date suggests this entry was written toward the end of the Love is in the Air holiday.
I woke up to find flowers on my threshold. Mother says that Jherric left them for me, and that he wants to see me before he departs for the capitol. I'm so excited! Jherric has always held my interest. He's so sweet and kind and handsome. Unlike the stupid Sheffield boys and their better-than-thou attitude. To think mother wanted me to marry one of them? Ugh. It's enough to make a girl weep.
No...Jherric is certainly preferable. I don't think his family approves of me, though. I'm not high class enough. I wish my family had higher standing! Father is the inn keeper in this town, though, and that's a fairly prestigious position.
The same probably cannot be said in the capitol, though.
Danielle thinks Jherric will ask me to run away with him. I've told her several times that she is a silly girl for thinking something like that...but I desperately wish it were true. I would leave with him in a heartbeat, though I know it would hurt my family to find me missing. I'm sure mother would understand. Father would come to terms eventually. And then, after a sufficient time has passed, perhaps Jherric and I could return...
But I taunt myself. These flights of fancy are not suitable for proper young women, or at least that's what mother says. I've seen her day dreaming many times, though, so I know that she doesn't mean it. But still...the festival has me unusually addled by romance. I am not prone to these daydreams. I suppose it is the hearts and flowers and decorations everywhere. And all of the couples. They are everywhere, I swear. I cannot walk twenty meters without seeing someone holding hands or acting in love.
It makes me...There is a small scratch of ink and the entry suddenly cuts off.
The next entry is dated a few days later.
Jherric has gone to the capitol for training. And I am here. I am focusing on working, helping father with the inn and keeping the house clean for mother. Nothing came of our meetings over the holiday except for flowers. I have determined to focus on everything except Jherric. I do not want to hurt myself thinking about him being so far away, and about his apparent disinterest in me.
There have been strange tidings, and odd rumors from all around the area. There are people suggesting some northern villages are following a queer new religion. It's not for certain, but a few people swear up and down that close friends and family members are changed and aren't devout followers of the Light anymore. I think they're just scared of people believing something different from them. Not everyone has to believe in the Light (though I certainly do!). There are a great number of peoples out there (or so I've heard) that believe in other things.
But that's not an issue here. It's just so boring. I want to go to the capitol. I want to do something interesting. Not just listen to rumors and gossip from travelers and girls in the town.
Who cares about people finding a new faith? I guess it's better than nothing, though...
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