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Name: Silence

Age: under 100

Physical description: Silence is a short elf with skin lightened by years on the surface. She had brands and scars marking her body and is currently sporting a large belly due to a baby growing inside her.

Personality: Silence is a little feisty. A little overprotective. She also is rather loud and gets worse when drunk. She has a love of feeding people and gambling which gets her into trouble sometimes.

Weaknesses: She is pregnant, enough said.

Strengths: She is stubborn and kind unless pressed too far.

History: my name is Silence, well... it's my slave name... i can't really remember the one my parents gave to me. i can tell you what i do remember....

when i was really little my family lived in tunnels with lots of other dark elves. most of them looked like my mother... she was so pretty.... dark grey skin and white hair.... i look like father did. my sister did too, but she had lighter hair. father was almost a noble elf in our underground city, but he got killed by another elf.... he was pushed into the darkness and never came out. i remember the other elf yelling "Wun l'kaas d'Lolth!"

after father died, mother decided that we should leave the tunnels.... we lost my sister before we made it out to the surface.... that was my fault. i accidentally let go of her hand when a group of the other elves came after us. i don't know what happened to her after that. i know that mother and i reached the surface and i was almost blinded by the light. it hurt... i was raised in the shadows and surface didn't seem to have any.

mother died a few years later... two or three, i think. we were living in this village full of nearly every race.... most i had never even heard of. anyway, when mother died i decided to leave that village.... that was the beginning of a series of mistakes. i found out that a single elf girl walking the roads makes a wonderful target.

most of them were humans... they jumped at me and i panicked. i opened the darkness and sent three of them into it... they died just as my father did. the others managed to capture me though. i still have the scars in my wrists and beside my eyes from the rope they tied and blinded me with. that was next mistake... i couldn't fight back when i couldn't see the enemy and my magick was useless when i couldn't focus on my hands.

well..... that was how i became a slave. to make it better, i could just barely understand common language so i didn't know what was going on. the first time i was sold still makes me shiver.... the humans stripped me and tied me to something. they didn't untie me and i had no idea where i was, what they were doing, or even who they were. i remember being grabbed, slapped and one hand that went inside me............ there was one hand that i bit, but i cannot tell who it was.... it was the only one i could harm though, because the others stayed clear of my mouth....

the hands that bought me were, thankfully, not any i recognized. i heard voices..... some belonging to the ones that caught me, others i did not know. the person with the strange hands untied me and as soon as my hands were free i attacked. i couldn't see them, but i knew if i made the fire that father taught me, that seeing wouldn't be an issue. i never made it all the way around................. the voices i knew shouted and i felt people holding me down, my hands being bound again, and a searing pain in the back of my neck. it took me years to find out what that was... that was a brand, the first one that was ever made on me.....

the next years were terrible. i was a rothe.... a slave to the humans..... and they did everything in their power to make sure i understood that they were in charge. i was sold eight times more after that first brand..... mostly to men who would abuse my body and spirit.... fol alus ji feir 'zil ulu evven'to uns'aa.... the women who owned me were not so bad, one even had her other slaves teach me to speak in common tongue.

well, my last master died a year ago.... i wont even pretend to care that he died. since then i've been wandering around.... i had a run-in with a human and am pregnant with his child.

now i work at the Outpost with Cyn'gus, an elf i met in a kitchen, and help him keep the camp running.

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