Legends of Belariath

Leatrix

She didn't live the privileged life of her half sisters deep within the ground. They laughed together, they hunted together... took what they wanted and gave nothing in return. It was the way of the nether gloom women, if you were one of them. She was not. Though they all had the same mother, her father.. had not been a willing moriel man so eager to please his woman. No.. her father had been a torian, befallen in battle to a bitch of a moriel that used him and then left.. never thinking that she would end up with child. A child she was tossed to the side and left for herself to care for. Treating her like a slave, to wait on her full-blooded sisters and to be kept in the shadows.

It wasn't long before she was sneaking topside.. the need to be in another part of the world.. she longed for the skies but her bones were to heavy for her wings to carry her. It was then she was more then determined to learn the magic to help her with that. Studying all the time she came topside more and more often until she was seen by another dark wing torian. The uniqueness of her, the beauty she didn't see had him capturing her for his own. While she was use to her mother and sister's abusing her.. demanding of her she was hardly aware of the demands the man would make on her.. and her body. Soon broken, tired, and used she closed in on herself, becoming subservient and meek. She thought of herself as nothing more then what one told her she was and soon was the perfect slave until her master was in battle.. and was killed. Once again she was on her own and her studying became everything to her.

Within the empire she was lost, confused and more then vulnerable once she came there but it wasn't long before she met Ronick.. his kindness surprised her, his desire for her was something that made her dizzy and before she knew it a collar had been placed about her throat willingly to be his. It was not a surprise to her when she fell for him. Not a surprised to her that she would lose him in battle.. though in a completely different way then before. His memories lost... everything that they were before gone after she had spent a year waiting for his return, hoping and keeping faithful to him the whole time. Slowly now she was making new memories with him...finding herself all over again and the woman she could be.. caught between the ground.. and the skies.. she chose the magic's of the earth.. but her heart soared with the birds.

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