Arra Nightwhispers of the Ruby Clan
Relationship: Mother
Status: Alive, with Tsari
Skills: 30 webbing, 20 riding
About: Arra grew up bruised, not just from falling off her horse but from the fists of her father. Her mother was likewise, and Arra could not have said which she hated more - him for hurting her, or her mother for letting it happen. Arra made herself a promise as she lay on her bed listening to her dad yell and nursing a broken arm. She would never stand by and let something like that happen to her own child, and if that meant never marrying then so be it.
That sort of declaration is easy enough to make at fifteen, but when Arra fell in love years later, she fell
hard. Rias was no fighter, but he was clever and diplomatic and solved his problems with quiet words and fierce passion instead of fists and anger. By the time she became pregnant, his family had stopped pestering Rias to woo her more and in this or that way, and started smugly referring to her as 'of the Topaz Clan', and jokingly telling Rias to marry her already, before she changed her mind. It was the family of her dreams, and when he asked that she go back with him she said yes without the slightest thought for her mother.
The night before the wedding though, Arra, heavy with child and nerves, changed her mind. Rias had never hit her or even given the slightest indication that the idea would be anything other than horrifying to him, but marriage would still remove any chance to escape, if she needed to. In the end, more out of fear for herself than the sacrifice she told herself she was making for her child, Arra packed her things, went to her Strider and slipped out in the dead of night.
From there it was a long, painful road to Lhavit.