Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Outlaw

The eldest of four siblings. On the surface, she is easygoing, competent, and extremely personable – all traits valued and expected from a (minor) noble family's daughter. Under the shrouded cover of darkness, however, lies a completely different story.

She had turned to thievery when she was only 7 years old. Summer, at an old family friend's house. That family, she recalled, was countless times wealthier than her own. It had been a simple jeweled necklace, plated in gold, hanging carelessly off the edge of a smooth wooden table.

It was then and there that she realized that there would be no repercussions, no slap on the wrist from the heavens, for her misdeeds - and that further added to the fuel of her addiction.

Soon... whenever the stress ... would arise, she found herself donning the familiar innocuous hooded outfit to traipse through the night...

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