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Aug. 25th, 2014 03:05 pmIt all started when the necromancer Nicodemus Crowe paid a visit to the village of a demon hunting clan, hoping to learn something about a recent demon sighting. Most everyone in the village was reluctant to help him. The first one to really step up and offer was a young female hunter named Lucinda Weston. They grew close in the several days Nicodemus spent in the village and ended up having a brief affair that ended when Nicodemus had to return to his home and his job. The parting was completely amiable and everyone involved went back to their lives as normal.
Nicodemus visited the village again several months later, only to discover that Lucinda was pregnant. She explained that she hadn't really intended to tell him. She didn't want him to think that she wanted anything from him. She didn't. She did, however, offer Nicodemus the chance to be involved in the child's life if he wanted to be. Having been denied this with his first child, he happily agreed. From then on, he visited the village much more often.
Eira was born on January 13th, a week before Lucinda's doctor predicted she would come. Due to some bad weather Nicodemus wasn't able to be present for her birth but was able to see her several days later. From there her life was fairly normal. She went through all the milestones every baby goes through, her mother took a ton of pictures and her father visited her frequently. Usually with presents. Once she was walking with some stability and talking, however, things began to change.
At the insistence of her maternal grandmother, her training to be a hunter began pretty much the minute she had some control over her body. At first it was just simple things. Balance, agility, coordination, fine motor skill control and endurance. As she grew older and more skilled, it became more complicated. She learned to track prey through the forest, to read maps and compasses, to tell time by looking at the sky, to hunt, to fish with her hands or a spear and how to make traps. She learned how to fire an arrow with a bow, how to use several different kinds of blades, how to shoot a gun and how to fight with her body. She learned how to swim, how to run, how to jump and how to climb. She also learned how to hide, though admittedly she never really put those lessons to use. She learned to cook and to sew as practical skills needed to survive. From her father she learned anatomy and how to treat some very basic injuries.
In the village she didn't have many friends. There were other children but most of them were older than her and more focused on their training than playing or making friends. It didn't bother her too much. The one child her age was another girl named Gemma. The two were introduced by their mothers when they were four. At first Eira was wary, having never really encountered another child, but Gemma managed to grow on her somehow. Eira attributed it to Gemma's willingness to just accept things as they were and not expect anything else. That and the fact that she had never really learned how to be offended. They spent every day together, at first because their mothers made it that way and then because they just wanted to. Gemma was Eira's first (and really only) friend, someone who managed to slip in and stay in when before Eira's only real attachments had been to her mother, father and grandfather.
When she was a teenager, Eira was finally introduced to her father's other child, her half brother Soeki. Soeki was older and taller than Eira, a boy, and from the first meeting she might have hated him a little. By her grandmother's judgement, Soeki was weak and Eira had to agree. He had no training, no knowledge of the world she and their father occupied and no nothing that set him apart from everyone else in the world. He was boring. Her mother insisted that she get to know him, though, for reasons that Eira didn't really get. But since her mother insisted, she obeyed. After scaring him and knocking him down a few times she decided that he might actually be fun. Besides, them interacting seemed to make her father happy and she liked that. It was a weird way to form a bond but she and Soeki managed.
The following year, Eira's maternal grandfather passed away after having a heart attack. He had raised Eira's mother all by himself, as Eira's grandmother had wanted her role to end at giving birth to the child, and had helped raise Eira. He was one of the few people Eira genuinely cared about so his death hit her hard, especially since he died in a way that to her hadn't seemed preventable. Sometimes she would think that it would've been better if a demon had killed him. That at least would have been expected and easy for her to wrap her head around.
Ironically, not long after her grandfather's death, Eira's mother died as well. Unlike Eira's grandfather, Lucinda was killed while fighting a demon. Eira had been present at the time and even tried to use the minimal first aid taught to her by her father to save her mother while the other hunters with them finished off the demon. She failed and her mother bled out right before her eyes. At the funeral, Eira's grandmother decided that Lucinda had died because she was weak. Motherhood had made her that way, was the conclusion. She had been too wrapped up in Eira's life to keep up with her own training. Even to this day, Eira carries her grandmother's words with her and blames herself a little for her mother dying. Unsurprisingly, Eira decided to leave the village after the funeral.
She went to live in her father's house, half because she herself wanted to and half because he really didn't want her to remain with her grandmother. By this time Soeki had cut ties with his stepfather and half brother and was living with their father as well. In the time they both lived in the house, they learned to act as siblings. They fought and argued and teased each other mercilessly. Sometimes they seemed to really hate each other but more often than not, they got along in a very strange way. Once they were both old enough to be on their own they even moved into an apartment together. Eira argued that it made sense because it was cheaper than them both living alone. In reality she liked it because she had grown used to Soeki's presence and didn't want to lose that. They even decided to open a sort of business together, taking care of demons and other paranormal problems for money.
They still fought, mostly over Eira's attitude and Soeki's connection with a demon, but they learned to coexist. Besides their father, they were really all the other had left. Eira still saw Gemma from time to time, their father visited when he wasn't busy and Soeki had his demon (who Eira was forced to promise not to murder, much to her displeasure) but mostly it was just the two of them. They complemented each other, somehow, and they both found that they could work well with the other. It wasn't perfect but it worked so they decided to hold onto it.
Nicodemus visited the village again several months later, only to discover that Lucinda was pregnant. She explained that she hadn't really intended to tell him. She didn't want him to think that she wanted anything from him. She didn't. She did, however, offer Nicodemus the chance to be involved in the child's life if he wanted to be. Having been denied this with his first child, he happily agreed. From then on, he visited the village much more often.
Eira was born on January 13th, a week before Lucinda's doctor predicted she would come. Due to some bad weather Nicodemus wasn't able to be present for her birth but was able to see her several days later. From there her life was fairly normal. She went through all the milestones every baby goes through, her mother took a ton of pictures and her father visited her frequently. Usually with presents. Once she was walking with some stability and talking, however, things began to change.
At the insistence of her maternal grandmother, her training to be a hunter began pretty much the minute she had some control over her body. At first it was just simple things. Balance, agility, coordination, fine motor skill control and endurance. As she grew older and more skilled, it became more complicated. She learned to track prey through the forest, to read maps and compasses, to tell time by looking at the sky, to hunt, to fish with her hands or a spear and how to make traps. She learned how to fire an arrow with a bow, how to use several different kinds of blades, how to shoot a gun and how to fight with her body. She learned how to swim, how to run, how to jump and how to climb. She also learned how to hide, though admittedly she never really put those lessons to use. She learned to cook and to sew as practical skills needed to survive. From her father she learned anatomy and how to treat some very basic injuries.
In the village she didn't have many friends. There were other children but most of them were older than her and more focused on their training than playing or making friends. It didn't bother her too much. The one child her age was another girl named Gemma. The two were introduced by their mothers when they were four. At first Eira was wary, having never really encountered another child, but Gemma managed to grow on her somehow. Eira attributed it to Gemma's willingness to just accept things as they were and not expect anything else. That and the fact that she had never really learned how to be offended. They spent every day together, at first because their mothers made it that way and then because they just wanted to. Gemma was Eira's first (and really only) friend, someone who managed to slip in and stay in when before Eira's only real attachments had been to her mother, father and grandfather.
When she was a teenager, Eira was finally introduced to her father's other child, her half brother Soeki. Soeki was older and taller than Eira, a boy, and from the first meeting she might have hated him a little. By her grandmother's judgement, Soeki was weak and Eira had to agree. He had no training, no knowledge of the world she and their father occupied and no nothing that set him apart from everyone else in the world. He was boring. Her mother insisted that she get to know him, though, for reasons that Eira didn't really get. But since her mother insisted, she obeyed. After scaring him and knocking him down a few times she decided that he might actually be fun. Besides, them interacting seemed to make her father happy and she liked that. It was a weird way to form a bond but she and Soeki managed.
The following year, Eira's maternal grandfather passed away after having a heart attack. He had raised Eira's mother all by himself, as Eira's grandmother had wanted her role to end at giving birth to the child, and had helped raise Eira. He was one of the few people Eira genuinely cared about so his death hit her hard, especially since he died in a way that to her hadn't seemed preventable. Sometimes she would think that it would've been better if a demon had killed him. That at least would have been expected and easy for her to wrap her head around.
Ironically, not long after her grandfather's death, Eira's mother died as well. Unlike Eira's grandfather, Lucinda was killed while fighting a demon. Eira had been present at the time and even tried to use the minimal first aid taught to her by her father to save her mother while the other hunters with them finished off the demon. She failed and her mother bled out right before her eyes. At the funeral, Eira's grandmother decided that Lucinda had died because she was weak. Motherhood had made her that way, was the conclusion. She had been too wrapped up in Eira's life to keep up with her own training. Even to this day, Eira carries her grandmother's words with her and blames herself a little for her mother dying. Unsurprisingly, Eira decided to leave the village after the funeral.
She went to live in her father's house, half because she herself wanted to and half because he really didn't want her to remain with her grandmother. By this time Soeki had cut ties with his stepfather and half brother and was living with their father as well. In the time they both lived in the house, they learned to act as siblings. They fought and argued and teased each other mercilessly. Sometimes they seemed to really hate each other but more often than not, they got along in a very strange way. Once they were both old enough to be on their own they even moved into an apartment together. Eira argued that it made sense because it was cheaper than them both living alone. In reality she liked it because she had grown used to Soeki's presence and didn't want to lose that. They even decided to open a sort of business together, taking care of demons and other paranormal problems for money.
They still fought, mostly over Eira's attitude and Soeki's connection with a demon, but they learned to coexist. Besides their father, they were really all the other had left. Eira still saw Gemma from time to time, their father visited when he wasn't busy and Soeki had his demon (who Eira was forced to promise not to murder, much to her displeasure) but mostly it was just the two of them. They complemented each other, somehow, and they both found that they could work well with the other. It wasn't perfect but it worked so they decided to hold onto it.
