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| Chapter Four: The Awful Truth |
| It started out like any other day. I walked home from school with my friends, chattering away, worrying about all the stupid things that schoolgirls worry about. When I arrived at the house, I saw a carriage waiting outside with the royal seal of Hyrule. Jono had company. I was quickly bustled in the house by Emma and changed into a stuffy old dress before being taken into the salon where I met the |
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| eldest daughter of Ferdinand Harkin, Amanda. She didn't take much time to dissemble it. Amanda informed me that she was my mother, who had left me with Jono all those years ago. To say that I didn't take it well was a bit of an understatement. I took it horribly. I was so afraid to suddenly learn that I was royalty and that I had a great responsibility awaiting me. All I could do was scream. I was angry too. Angry that the mother who had abandoned me all those years ago had suddenly reappeared and wanted to form a relationship with me. I just had to get away, I just had to escape. And so, that's what I did. I put on an old suit of leather armor Jono had given me, along with a necklace which was said had belonged to my mother. This was my ideal mother, not the feeble woman I had met downstairs. In the middle of the night, I wandered outside of the safety of my own little world all alone. |
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| It was stupid. No, it was more than that, it was very stupid. I learned that the hard way though. I had barely gone anywhere when I ran into trouble. I looked suspicious so it was only right that a young inspector by the name of Ewan decided to stop me. He saw the jewelry I was carrying and made the only logical conclusion he could, based on the times and the clothing I was wearing. He named me a thief and had me arrested. I put up a great fight, the first one of my life probably, but in the end, there were just more constables than there were Tranns Harkins. I was |
| stuck. I spent a year rotting in a prison cell. It would have only been five months, but because I resisted arrest, more time was added. Now, in the beginning of my sentence, I was put to work on a chaingang, but I was little good to anyone, since I was such a weak little thing. To try and build up my |
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| strength, I was put in a cell with a woman named Hoshi. Hoshi was an honest woman who had killed her husband to prevent him from harming their daughter. True, she built up my strength, but she also taught me how to fight, a lesson that would prove very valuable later in my life. Unfortunately, it also got me into trouble. I fought with a guard and was therefore put into solitary confinement for the rest of my time. |
| A year came and went. Ewan took me from my cell and intended to escort me to my trial, finally. I had two choices in front of me and I chose the worser of the two, but the one that would truly change the course of my life. I ran. I ran, and ran, and ran until I thought there was no where else to go. And when I felt out of breath, my sides aching, I kept running. I wanted to get home, but where I ended up was the last place that I could ever call a familiar place. |