"So I see you wish to learn more about me,"she turns gracefully and motions for you to follow, calling softly behind her,"Come, i'll show you my home..."Slowly she leads you down a narrow, grassy path to a small castle, the castle is nothing compared to the bigger one, but you can see that it is well cared for and very cozy looking. But she doesn't lead you to that castle, she leads you down an almost hidden side path to a small, run down house, big enough for four, it appears to have been abandoned for years.

Surrounding the house is a field of weeds, once a lusterous garden of roses from the world over. There is a small broken path that curves off to the right to a small, overgrown clearing that has a broken and cracked fountain which is an opal pheonix, and benchs surround the fountain, it used to be a beautiful resting area.

As you look closer at it you see that slowly the area is being brought to life again, roses are starting to peep up through patches of picked weeds, some of the grass is cut. When you look at it you realize that this place is slowly being fixed up. The young woman lets you look at it for a minute, then she speaks softly,"Forgive me for I have not told you who I am, my name is Poldara Anya Amnell, and this..."she moves her arm to motion slightly at everything," is Cantenbel, home of the Nagas, and my home."

You notice that as she speaks she absently twirls a blue, green and gold ring on the ring finger of her left hand."What at you see here is the home I lived in when I was younger. We were located here, but it was rare that me and my family were actually here."She glances away quickly and you can tell that it is an uncomfortable subject for her, but still she speaks on."I lived here with my mother, my cousin, and my elder twin brother. My mother being the Lady Skye Amnell, the only solid heir to her father's inheritence. Though you're not from around here, i expect not for you to know that.

"When my mother became pregnant with two children, her father tried to keep it a secret, seeing as she was not married, and that he needed her as his heir. When my brother and I were born my mother was banished from her home and dissowned by her family. Reasoning being that her children were not full Naga. The Lady Skye had mated with a Goblin and her children were crossbreeds."She pauses again and glances to the small house, then looks back up at you.

"Mother tried to give us full lives, telling us all that had happened truthfully; save the fact that she told us that she and our father had been married and that he had died before we were born." As you continue to talk with her you discover that as a child this young woman had to live with frequent raids from local villagers, all because she and her brother were different.

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