Saeil Moonblade
Family Lies - Part 3
Though that night was so long ago, she could still remember it vividly. She was young, still a student of the darker magics and she was going home but taking the long way. She lived alone and there wasn’t anything to rush home to. But along the way that night, she heard a baby crying. It was odd to hear something like that this far into the woods so she followed the sound. She stopped though when she saw it.
A man and woman, both looked half dead. Addicts of some sort, she figured by the looks of them. The woman looked nervous, unsure but ultimately determined as she lowered the baby to the ground under the tree, wrapped in a tattered, sad excuse for a blanket. The couple looked around nervously before running off.
The whole scene made Zelektra feel angry for so many reasons but as soon as they were gone, she went to the baby, looking at him. He was filthy and looked hungry, tired, in need of caring. She took him home to bathe and feed him. She held him until he fell asleep in her arms. She knew though, that she couldn’t be this baby’s mother. It just couldn’t be her.
So the next day, she took the baby, after cleaning his clothes and wrapping him in one of her own, clean blankets to look for a better place for him. She remembered an estate nearby. ‘Sunspell’ was what the gate said. They were wealthy, noble people. They could give him a better life than she could and certainly better than those addicts were giving him. She set him in a basket with a small note about how he’d been found and then left while he was still asleep. She waited where she could see. It only took a minute or two and someone came to get him.
Throughout the years, she watched as he grew. Though it wasn’t the life that she had hoped for him. He was cared for physically. It wasn’t where he belonged though. It wasn’t the environment he would thrive in and she knew it wouldn’t last long. She had heard eventually, as many had, of when he was disowned and sent away. She found him. She gave him what his life had lacked. Adventure and magic. And ultimately, she led him to what he loved doing.
But now, here she was, having to tell him about all this. Perhaps she should have told him all this sooner. It was like he read her mind. The moment she was thinking it, he was asking why she hadn’t. He sat there across from her, looking at her with hurt in his eyes.
“I… I’m sorry, Saeil. I guess… I don’t know. I guess that I thought it wouldn’t benefit you to know. You already had been through so much. The things your father did and the emotional neglect… I just didn’t want to make things worse for you. I thought I would wait. But then… when is the right time to tell someone something like that?”
Sighing, Saeil slumped back in his chair though he seemed to accept that as a fair enough answer. He stayed silent for what seemed like forever before finally speaking but his voice sounded so quiet and far away. “I just… They didn’t even want me neither. And now… what little identity I did have… it’s gone. Who am I?”
“You’re who you have always been. You’re Saeil.”
Somehow, that brought a smile to his face. Maybe that’s all he really needed.
Saeil Moonblade
Sin'dorei Dancer
| Age | Young Adult |
| Eye Color | Green/Violet |
| Height | 6'3" |
| Body shape | Lean |
| Residence | Silvermoon City |
| Realm | Wyrmrest Accord - US |
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