Strena

Strena's First Hunt Strena had lived with  Zaryb for a year now. Yet she had lst Orion during this time. She still cried at night, even though she knew that she had to stop, but she could not help it. She was five to six years old! She sometimes had to remind herself of this. She even had to remind herself of her true name too. She had to chant it every night when she wasn't out with her parent's murderer as he took on job after job. Meanwhile as she did this she kept all the memories of her parents alive and she kept their faces in her mind. She did this to alleviate her fear of losing all these things. She would hold her nightgown, the last  and only thing that she had of her home, like a blanket, just to remind herself of what the clothes looked like. She had spotted that her dark skin had become paler and there were bags under her eyes as she woke up from nightmares of that night. Yet when Zaryb had time off he would train her like she was a dog. She had developed a mor...