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She stayed with the clan at first, tending fires and caring for younglings with the elders, but no one would speak to her or meet her gaze. After a time, she knew she could not live her life like this, and she would have to leave the island. She saved up what coppers she could, and bought passage to the mainland on a trader's ship. She scratched out a meager existence in the coastal towns and villages of Odessa for several months, until a fateful event changed her life. Gathering redberries in the woods, she came across a mercenary standing over a wounded elk calf. She watched him, waiting for him to perform the Mercy and end the creature's suffering. Instead he just poked the calf a bit with his spear. He looked around to see if any of his friends were around and knelt, drawing his knife and reaching for the elk's tiny antlers. He was going to cut them off while the poor thing still lived! Instinctively, Kiiara drew two arrows from her dusty quiver and released them in quick succession, one into the heart of the wounded calf, the other into the mercenary's neck. As blood spilled over his grasping hands, Kiiara emerged from the underbrush to bury a third arrow between his eyes, burying it almost to the fletching. As she stood over the dead elk and human, she realized that the pain she felt watching the animal suffer had overpowered whatever instinct prevented her from killing before, and she was no longer soft, was finally a true Hunter. Even so, she knew she would never be allowed back on Sidhe-Praxen. | She stayed with the clan at first, tending fires and caring for younglings with the elders, but no one would speak to her or meet her gaze. After a time, she knew she could not live her life like this, and she would have to leave the island. She saved up what coppers she could, and bought passage to the mainland on a trader's ship. She scratched out a meager existence in the coastal towns and villages of Odessa for several months, until a fateful event changed her life. Gathering redberries in the woods, she came across a mercenary standing over a wounded elk calf. She watched him, waiting for him to perform the Mercy and end the creature's suffering. Instead he just poked the calf a bit with his spear. He looked around to see if any of his friends were around and knelt, drawing his knife and reaching for the elk's tiny antlers. He was going to cut them off while the poor thing still lived! Instinctively, Kiiara drew two arrows from her dusty quiver and released them in quick succession, one into the heart of the wounded calf, the other into the mercenary's neck. As blood spilled over his grasping hands, Kiiara emerged from the underbrush to bury a third arrow between his eyes, burying it almost to the fletching. As she stood over the dead elk and human, she realized that the pain she felt watching the animal suffer had overpowered whatever instinct prevented her from killing before, and she was no longer soft, was finally a true Hunter. Even so, she knew she would never be allowed back on Sidhe-Praxen. | ||
Just then more mercenaries emerged from the wood to see what caused a shout from their compatriot. Initially scared they would kill her in retribution, instead the mercenaries were impressed with her skill. She told them she was a human named Kira, and under her hood and woolen cap, with her muddy clothes and tanned skin, they did not suspect her ruse. The mercenaries welcomed her into their band, though she knew she would have to keep her ancestry a secret. After several years of life with the Toppled Crown Company, she rose quickly within the crew, with a company of her own and responsibility for training new scouts. She fought bravely and well in several skirmishes, even earning a few notches on her longbow. | Just then more mercenaries emerged from the wood to see what caused a shout from their compatriot. Initially scared they would kill her in retribution, instead the mercenaries were impressed with her skill. She told them she was a human named Kira, and under her hood and woolen cap, with her muddy clothes and tanned skin, they did not suspect her ruse. The mercenaries welcomed her into their band, though she knew she would have to keep her ancestry a secret. After several years of life with the [[Toppled_Crown_Company|Toppled Crown Company]], she rose quickly within the crew, with a company of her own and responsibility for training new scouts. She fought bravely and well in several skirmishes, even earning a few notches on her longbow. | ||
Her life would change once again during a job near Handlestadt. Her commanding officer, a human named Lazaro Labrador, was leading a small battalion into a nearby village to quell a minor rebellion. When they arrived, Kiiara was aghast to see that the "rebels" were more like starving refugees, no real threat to anyone. Nevertheless, her squad was ordered to take command of the town square, and eliminate any resistance. She knew she could not, and refused a direct order from Labrador. He ordered her own squad to arrest her, and in the confusion and struggle, Kiiara killed several of her companymates, and badly injured Lazaro. To make matters worse, the cap and headband she usually wore to hide her distinctive ears was torn from her head, and her Sidhe heritage was plain for all to see. | Her life would change once again during a job near Handlestadt. Her commanding officer, a human named [[Lazaro_Labrador|Lazaro Labrador]], was leading a small battalion into a nearby village to quell a minor rebellion. When they arrived, Kiiara was aghast to see that the "rebels" were more like starving refugees, no real threat to anyone. Nevertheless, her squad was ordered to take command of the town square, and eliminate any resistance. She knew she could not, and refused a direct order from Labrador. He ordered her own squad to arrest her, and in the confusion and struggle, Kiiara killed several of her companymates, and badly injured Lazaro. To make matters worse, the cap and headband she usually wore to hide her distinctive ears was torn from her head, and her Sidhe heritage was plain for all to see. | ||
She ran, again. Back to the woods, where she lives a much better life now that the ability to hunt has been returned to her. She has been on the run for almost 20 years, and while she generally shuns civilization and crowds, her training has allowed her to infiltrate some military outposts on the mainland, and she has learned some troubling information that she has thus far kept to herself, while always looking over her shoulder for Lazaro Labrador and the Toppled Crown. She joins the party in search of both the acceptance and comradeship she has been missing during her seclusion, but also for the best way to bring her discoveries to light. | She ran, again. Back to the woods, where she lives a much better life now that the ability to hunt has been returned to her. She has been on the run for almost 20 years, and while she generally shuns civilization and crowds, her training has allowed her to infiltrate some military outposts on the mainland, and she has learned some troubling information that she has thus far kept to herself, while always looking over her shoulder for Lazaro Labrador and the Toppled Crown. She joins the party in search of both the acceptance and comradeship she has been missing during her seclusion, but also for the best way to bring her discoveries to light. | ||