I wanted to keep my head attached to the rest of my body for one thing. Trouble seemed to follow wherever I went. I think part of that Trouble-magnet is still attached to my butt. "smirks" Both my children had been kidnapped, threats on their lives and threats on mine. I finally realized I couldnt protect them alone and had to fake my daughters death and hide them away in a private school. I told no one where they were or that they were still alive.

The threats on my life continued. But I knew my children were safe at least. My marriage If you could call it that had long before that broke up. But it didnt matter, as that marriage was only to cover up for who i was really involved with. A Knight of the same Knighthood that wanted me dead, he was also married and the father of Mia and Alkane.

HE wasnt told the children were his until we came to the island. He also thought them dead. I was afraid to tell him they were his or that they were alive.

Anyways, all of that lead to me coming here. I knew the children were safe and that I would have to leave them for a while. But once here I planned on bringing them to the Island. From portraits I was receiving of them, they looked more and more like their father. I knew I would have to confess to him before I had them brought to the Island though. And it was time he learned the truth anyways. He was no longer married and not a part of that Knighthood any longer.

When he asked me to come to the Island I didnt hesitate to leave the mainland. The first sight of it when the ship docked, I was in awe of its beauty. The white sand on the beach, the warm weather. It was perfect.

Things have not been easy for me here. But a year later and I am still here. The children are here now and they seem to love it. My involvement with their father however has finally ended. A few months ago I married his father. Its a weird situation with him being their grandfather and their step-father. One that i accept and I think they are getting use to it now. The others on the island..well i still hear their snide remarks at times. But I love him and thats why I married him.

Several times I wanted to leave the island over the past year. But i couldnt leave its beauty. And I wont let the people that have no idea about me, drive me back to the mainland. I learned to ignore their words.

I am here to stay. They can learn to deal with it or leave.

Vixen Blade Carazzi

I came here because the land I was leaving behind was being swept away by fire and flames, just like the one before it where I lived. A pitstop in the middle, a land I lived in briefly, was overtaken by wanna-be mercenaries who thought nothing of pilfering and raping anyone or anything in its way. So what did I have to lose?

I had a lot I wanted to lose. My "reputation"..I have always been too naive for my own good, and ended up in a relationship I just wasn't ready for. I'm only 40 (an elf) and I guess more of a womanchild than I want to be. And while in that relationship, one I thought I'd have for the rest of my life....well, another came in and awoke feelings in me I didn't know I was capable of having. He wasn't gentle, wasn't loving at all..and left me pregnant.

Of course, I didn't tell my husband that I was expecting, much less tell him that the baby wasn't his! But when the land began to rip apart, I fled. As fast as I could, for I began to show, my tiny frame no longer looking like I swallowed a melon seed. Instead a swell in my midsection told what I couldn't.. that I was carrying the product of an illicit, dark encounter.

I ran into Sir Carazzi, who traded me passage on the boat in exchange for being a slave domestic for a period of four months. I was chained and brought on board.

I gave birth to Aemes (her son's nickname) on the boat here, my gods that wasn't easy. I almost died, because my build is not one to accomodate childbirth very well, and it's only luck that kept me alive. At the first port of call, a mainland whose name I can't spell, much less pronounce, I left him in the care of priests. They took my bundle wrapped in blankets, a shank of platinum hair peering out, and said they'd put him with a good lady who takes in orphans. "But he's no orphan..he is mine." A deal was made to let me visit from time to time, and send gold back to support him.

I got to Crystal Shores, and began to play with the magic that my long-lost mother taught me. And something happened, I still don't quite know what or how, but I developed a way to temporarily enchant blades. Lord Pryce heard about this and had me whisked off to Coconut Grove, to demonstrate the magic. He was amazed, and ordered me to work only under his watch, so this magic could be regulated and never abused. I also made enough gold to buy small interests in a couple of other businesses, and I do all right now. Enough to live here and enough to send back monthly.

Will I stay here forever? I don't know. I don't go out much, because I'm not over the fears that creep into my head even still. I never know who else is going to immigrate here, and I don't want my past, a past that I never planned on, to catch up to me.

Aemeryllis

::Smiles a bit as he remembers his first night on Crystal Shores::

I remember my first night on the Isle as if it were Yesterday. there were several folks at the Pleasuredome when I arrived, my mother had recently died...and as she was my only family..I was more than a little upset. I thought I needed a change of scenery so I sailed here...to Crystal Shores. The very first person I spoke with here was Lina Metallium. *sighs* God...I miss Lina...wonder where she's been. Also there that night were Jane Maichen, The late Alianna Carazzi, and A man named Fierjen. Lina played her Lute and Fierjen and I sang...I miss doing that...I haven't sang a song in months! Well that's it really, pretty simple indeed

Vrax Lorinar