You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
—Frank Crane

I was raised by my parents until I was about 12. It was really all right and such. My parents were wonderful people really. My mom was the best, however. I didn’t get to see much of my dad. He was always too busy trying to find things that were going on and fix them. He was a knight of his city and took great pride in the job. I think that’s where I got my loyalty from. There was no one more loyal than my dad and I loved him a lot. My mom was very sweet and kind to me while he was gone. She showed me how to cook and such. But when I turned 12, some raiders found my house and proceeded to burn it down because it was my father’s home. The last thing I saw was the flames and the last thing I heard were my mom’s screams. It was really very horrible. However after I blacked out, I woke up to have in front of me a woman I would come to know as Amaliya. It was six years later and she had been convinced by Auntoni to pull out a card out of a deck that I have no idea what happened to. But the card she pulled ended up causing her to have to take me under her care. I didn’t know it was actually six years later for a while. But the first thing Auntoni wanted to do was eat me. Lovely, hmm? However that was quickly patched up and we shortly after became the greatest of friends. I would always curl up with him at night and he took care of me for the most part. He also started to teach me in his thieving skills.

Well it was about half a year after that or so that the duration of the card pulled ran out. Amaliya was free of having to take care of me and I was aged to catch up with how old I was supposed to be. With that, my mind matured and such as though I had spent those six years with Auntoni. Because of this, I gained my skills as a thief. Life continued on and Auntoni and I continued to get along. Amaliya for the most part disappeared from our lives except for an occasional show here and there. I never really liked her much anyway. I supposed the greatest thing that ever happened to me was when we actually went to this one palace that Amaliya had jokingly told Auntoni to go to. And he did it. Whoops? Well it ended up giving us a home…well it gave Auntoni one for a few days. It was after that that he found the Aztec people and he woke them up. He ended up staying with them with Amaliya and he called me there as well. I knew that I was being called to stay there and they had already captured a wonderful woman by the name of Danielle and her husband.

I couldn’t help it, I had to do it. On my way to teleport out, I purposely passed by Patrick’s door and ended up taking him with me so he could get them out. And I’m just glad he did. He’s really a wonderful guy too. Anyway, I ended up being turned evil for a while due to Auntoni’s suggestion to do so. I know nothing that I did then was my fault but it doesn’t take away that sting of what I’ve said and done. This brought on the biggest change in my life. Not long after I was rescued by the faeries and fixed, Auntoni was brought back to have his mind fixed. I went to see him, but he told me to leave and so I did.

Oh, I’ve forgotten to mention something that has proven to be a big changer of my life as well. I was captured by a group of evil priests and mages for a while and they ended up locking me in a room alone for a while and giving me these horrible hallucinations. It wasn’t too long after that that I ended up being turned into a Greater Vampire. Because of that change, I was given the curse that anytime I find myself to be completely alone, I’ll start having the hallucinations come back again. It really is a very terrible curse so I spend most of my time around at least one other person.

The reason this came up now was because that when I left, I didn’t have Auntoni to curl up with as I usually did and so I ended up spending the night in the nursery where there were plenty of others. I think it was because of this that Auntoni went over the edge but the next morning I got a call from him to come and see him. I knew it was a setup, I can tell these things, but I went anyway. I had to go. He ended up betraying that trust I took with me. Tyler was there and he ended up shooting me in the back. Irvine was ready to attack me, but he kind of stopped when he heard my side of the story. The only reason I wasn’t in deep trouble was because Auntoni mentioned me bringing in Patrick which made me think of him and though I couldn’t contact him, I could contact his second mate who I had seen around a bit and so I did. Well Malin came to my rescue and so I got out of there all right. Auntoni never ended up seeing why it hurt me so much that he betrayed me by having me turned evil and then treated me as though it were my fault that I did and said some things to him when I was evil.

I ended up leaving him that day to stay at the palace after he tried to make me decide between him and my new friends. I couldn’t stay with him after what he had done to me. And so now I spend much of my time at the palace though I’m starting to spend more and more time out and about with Las Panteras. Especially now that I’ve met Ty. He’s really sweet and I’m really glad that he asked me out cause there was no way I was going to be thinking about getting together with a guy like that at the time. Even though he may get some trouble from Auntoni for it, I know that he’ll happily take it. He’s great and I don’t plan to be going anywhere else ever. I know where my loyalties lie.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
—Oscar Wilde

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson