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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3460305" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>Valerie nods slowly, looking a little distant for a moment before snapping back.</p><p></p><p>"Forgive me...it's been quite awhile since anyone called me that," she says with a slightly sad little smile.</p><p></p><p>"In the simplest possible terms, I have been disowned from my family and I came here to keep my head down for a time and avoid the consequences of the situation that led to that." She waves a hand. "Don't worry, I won't leave it at that."</p><p></p><p>"I began my path in witchery when I was a child, daring to tempt fate by entering a wood where I was forbidden to go...even if only by stepping just inside the treeline, then hopping back out. At first I believed the witch who took it on herself to teach me had chosen me because of my spirit and difficulty accepting the traditional place of a lady of the court. I didn't understand until much later that she had other reasons. She had recognized in me a magical affinity, and had decided that it would not be wasted. No matter what the cost."</p><p></p><p>Valerie hesitates, then says, "The cost was...high. Eventually, the rumor of witchery afoot grew...attracted dangerous attention. And though my teacher's actions were responsible for many of the rumors, I was young and inexperienced and..." she grimaces. "Incautious. As she knew I would be. She used the fear of the people like a surgeon's edge...to cleave me from my family and leave me alone. With her. Father had no choice but to either give me up to the Hammer...or secret me from the castle and claim witchery. Her plan went awry only in one detail. I escaped her. I could not salvage my name or family...but I could, and did, free myself from her poisonous counsel."</p><p></p><p>"I have been here since," she finishes. "Selling such trinkets that I can make, and posing as an old marsh woman to sell my 'herbal remedies.' I have learned hard lessons at great price, but I am ready to venture out into the worlds again. It has been long enough. I ask you then, will it be with you and your crew?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 3460305, member: 4936"] Valerie nods slowly, looking a little distant for a moment before snapping back. "Forgive me...it's been quite awhile since anyone called me that," she says with a slightly sad little smile. "In the simplest possible terms, I have been disowned from my family and I came here to keep my head down for a time and avoid the consequences of the situation that led to that." She waves a hand. "Don't worry, I won't leave it at that." "I began my path in witchery when I was a child, daring to tempt fate by entering a wood where I was forbidden to go...even if only by stepping just inside the treeline, then hopping back out. At first I believed the witch who took it on herself to teach me had chosen me because of my spirit and difficulty accepting the traditional place of a lady of the court. I didn't understand until much later that she had other reasons. She had recognized in me a magical affinity, and had decided that it would not be wasted. No matter what the cost." Valerie hesitates, then says, "The cost was...high. Eventually, the rumor of witchery afoot grew...attracted dangerous attention. And though my teacher's actions were responsible for many of the rumors, I was young and inexperienced and..." she grimaces. "Incautious. As she knew I would be. She used the fear of the people like a surgeon's edge...to cleave me from my family and leave me alone. With her. Father had no choice but to either give me up to the Hammer...or secret me from the castle and claim witchery. Her plan went awry only in one detail. I escaped her. I could not salvage my name or family...but I could, and did, free myself from her poisonous counsel." "I have been here since," she finishes. "Selling such trinkets that I can make, and posing as an old marsh woman to sell my 'herbal remedies.' I have learned hard lessons at great price, but I am ready to venture out into the worlds again. It has been long enough. I ask you then, will it be with you and your crew?" [/QUOTE]
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