by Ademonalai on July 23rd, 2010, 12:34 am
The only thing that Ademonalai remembered about her parents was on a boat. A small boat that always smelled of fish and seaweed. She remembered that her father was a big, burly man that sold fish for a living, and her mother, a quiet and calm woman, wove seaweed baskets to hold the fish that Ademonalai's father caught.
Then Ademonalai remembered a huge storm. She supposed that her parents died and that the boat capsized; she didn't really know, that part of her memory was blank.
But she remembered waking up in the arms of a strange woman on a beach. The woman and her husband, who Ademonalai came to call Aunt and Uncle though she had no relation to them, took Ademonalai in and reaised her in their little hut by the coast.
Aunt and Uncle took ill after eating some bad fish one day, so Ademonalai spent her entire thirteenth year of life taking care of them. After the year was over, both Aunt and Uncle passed away. Ademonalai buried them and marked their graves with big stones on which Ademonalai had offered proper funeral sacrifices and prayers.
After that, Ademonalai had left the coast. She traveled far and wide, eventually coming here, to Ravok. All she had to her name was her clothes and a small sack that held her money, her food, and a necklace that Aunt had made for her. In a pouch of seaweed that her mother, Ademonalai carried a copper ring that belonged to her father. Hidden in her silver sailors belt, Ademonalai carried a dagger made of stone and glass.