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 Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:46 am
Liira vs ChandraBattle[Finished]
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:46 am
Liira vs RhonannBattle[Finished]
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:55 pm
Liira vs PoscutaBattle[Finished]
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:39 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:07 pm
Class Quest Solo Ranger
Liira buttoned up her coat and opened the door to the inn they had been staying for the night. The entire family had taken a trip to Zena to see Liira’s parents and she couldn’t have been more excited, even if she might not show it the same ways others like her husband would have. She could feel the bitter chill in the air and she actually felt cold. She loved it. It had been such a long time that she had forgotten what it felt like to have to walk through snow. Her blood had forgotten what it felt like to have to keep her warm. It was true what they said, that your blood thinned the longer you lived outside of Zena. But the slight bite of numbness at her nose was a welcomed feeling now that she was back. Of course Tau hated it. He might as well have been wearing seventeen layers of clothing the way he was always bundled up. She shook her head at the thought and shut the door behind her. They were only a little ways outside of town and while Tau felt like he needed a break from the trip and a day to stay indoors, Liira wanted to see her parents.
She trudged through the snow and pulled her coat just a little bit closer around herself. She could see the roof over the hill now and she could feel her legs moving just a little faster, waiting to close the gap between her and her parents. She didn’t remember being this excited last time, but maybe that was because she had her children with her this time. All five of them had made it, including Tyyn, which was surprising to her. She finally reached the steps to the inn her parents’ owned, stomped her boots out on the steps to the door and pulled it open to feel the warm air of the hearth’s fire. She felt her heart pick up just a bit, that swelling when you knew you were about to be faced with the nostalgia of your childhood, but something was wrong. Things weren’t where they used to be. Granted it had been a few years, but the decorating didn’t feel like the same style, the place was cold and more modernized. She took it all in and still in a daze made her way toward the kitchen. It was confirmed for her then. She went to pull on the kitchen door, but some woman started to shout at her, asking about her business there. ”My business? This is my parents’ inn.” She turned to the woman who had made her way towards Liira, looking very pissed off. The woman scoffed and pointed a thumb at the door. ”It might have been three years ago, but it ain’t no more.” She huffed and muttered more things at Liira, but she was already feeling pretty far away from their conversation. She interrupted the woman mid sentence - ”Where are they? Where did my parents go?” She knew her voice sounded vacant. The woman raised an eyebrow and the look on her face was of judgement, though Liira could give a flying fart what the woman might have thought about her. ”They moved across town, didn’t they tell you anything?” She threw sarcastically at Liira.
”Shut your damn mouth.” She returned, her thoughts were back in her body and rambled off some more insults before stomping out of the inn and across town to where she hoped she could find her parents.
It took her another hour to get across town, and after several questions and some mild cursing she had found it. Her parents’ new home. She looked at the small sized house with it’s little porch and cramped looking windows and Liira couldn’t really comprehend it. Her parents had left the inn. Their business, her mother’s work. It was all gone. She thought of all of the memories formed in that place, all of her childhood, her training, her good times and bad, like the bandits that had raided their sheds years ago. She thought of all of the warm feelings associated with the place and inside she felt sad, hollow almost. She had been so excited to take her children here, to show them how she had grown up, to see the hustling of her mother running an in, to see her more quiet father running numbers and counting stock from his fur trade. All of the things she had wanted to share with them was gone. Even Tyyn, who was almost an adult hadn’t gotten to experience the force of nature that was her mother when barking orders.
She begrudgingly made her way to the door and knocked. Her mother answered and could already see the look on Liira’s face. ”You didn’t tell us you were coming Liira.” Was her greeting. ”And you didn’t tell me you moved Mom.” She threw her attitude and even though she knew it was childish she couldn’t help herself. Her mother sighed and moved to the side so Liira could enter. She sulked her way in and didn’t see her father in the painfully small home that was now her parents’. ”Hon, you must know I’m getting older now. I can’t keep up with the inn like I used to. And my knees - they’re not doing too hot.” She told her daughter.
Liira sighed and shook her head. ”I know.” She really did, it just caught her off guard. ”I was just expecting this to go differently.” She started. She joined her mother at the table and took off her coat. ”I brought the family. They’re all at an inn right now. I just wanted to show them what it was like, you know?”
Her mother nodded and tried to offer her sage advice. ”We’re still the same people, Liira. Nothing’s changed but the house.” But Liira already knew that. She would just have to adjust her expectations. Her children might not know the childhood she had grown up in, but they would still know her parents, and Zena. They would know snow, and maybe she would even take them out on a mock hunting trip. Get them to really see what it was like when she was younger. She nodded her head to her mother and lifted a hand palm up. ”Got any hot chocolate?” She asked. She would just need to get over herself, however long that took.
[word count: 1,109]
[Liira goes back to Zena to visit her parents only to find that her memories of her old life no longer exist. Her parents have sold the inn to live a quieter life on the edge of town and Liira has to come to terms with the idea that the childhood she loved can’t be shared with her children.]
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