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Talisia is a very calm personality when you first meet her and her expression is typically neutral with her emotions always hidden beneath the surface. Her background of coming from a harsh mother and losing her loving father has made her tough when it comes to trust, yet her father's hope is still instilled inside of her. So she comes off as being independent and stubborn about accepting any help as she doesn't want to have to rely on anyone again. Still it shows that she is strong and willing to take on the work needed to get a job done. Her mind is sharp as her tongue and she will take on any task presented to her. This will sometimes get her into trouble as her refusal for help can even be there when she may be most desperate and truly lost.

In a way her new hope for survival and the bitter years spent in an icy home has made her adaptable. Her personality is like a switch and she can easily mask her true feelings and nature in order to play a tune to make the situation. If she wants something done she will pull any strings to get it accomplished and if a challenge is presented to her she will figure out a way around it. It is not rare for her to make the few strings and sticks she has been given into something useful.

Other times though that adaptability makes friends hard to acquire as anyone who has been with her for a bit may be confused about which side is truly Talisia and which one is the fake. Maybe she is just adapting to their personality and hiding the truth inside once more? There really are too many secrets and mysteries about her.

Truthfully though her heart is still very gentle as her father's love has forever left an impression on her. Her spirit is kind and loving as seen in the animals that she attracts. Talisia would stop in the middle of a road even for the smallest of creatures if they seem like they are injured and need her help. While earthlings have a harder time getting through the icy facade to the gentle, nurturing nature beneath, any little creature can quickly be loved by her.

Born into the icy lands as a hybrid between a lady of ice and a gypsy shifter Talisia didn’t know much about her father’s history. All she knew was that her father was a loving figure who doted on her and gave her more love than anyone else she would ever know growing up. His real story, however, was not lost in the dark corridors of the cold home she was raised in. Talisia and her twin were abnormal children, both with their mismatched eyes and changing skin tones. Those few who knew the truth about her said it was only fair that both children bore marks of nature’s curse since their existence was a manipulation in itself.

How was it a manipulation some may ask?

When Kaleo first came to Zena he was traveling along with friends who wished to share their wares in the other lands. A gypsy himself it was hard for the young and handsome singer to pass the chance to explore new lands. His gentle nature and kind heart as well made declining his friend’s request a near impossible chore. The trip he was promised was to be brief as waiting back home would be his newly betrothed who was to prepare for their immediate wedding. Joining a clan of weapon smiths and earning a beautiful bride didn’t sound like such a hard bargain for most, but reigning in his wanderlust would still prove to be a challenge. Because he feared he would lose himself in marriage and in his new trade the gypsy had to give into the lust one last time and agreed to travel with his friend.

That decision would lead him into a life changing trap.

Leaving his home behind Kaleo found that Zena was indeed a harsh world. So used to the heat and humid of the rain forests the shifter found the ice to cut into his very spirit. Yet a part of him was mystified and found that the wintery lands held their own beauty. It was gorgeous to see the moon and sun’s reflection on the ice and to watch how each moment gave him a sparkling image in both lights. The party’s trading ended up near an important home where a council member lived.

Nivedita was her name. A young lady full of promise and high power came dancing into his life one night. Without knowing his own dangerous charm Kaleo found himself enticing the woman closer and closer into his life. His eyes showed her the stars and the world and for someone who lived in an icy palace she found a fire in his spirit never seen before. The way he moved and the way he could sing moved her heart which she had once believed could never be moved.

She had to have him.

One night of special herbs and tipsy mistakes lead him into her bed. It was that night that the snake first got her coils around the bird. His wings were to quickly become tied in her grasp and she made certain that they were to become clipped. Nivedita poisoned his mind with lies and illusions leading others to believe in his death when they searched for him and leaving him with no memories of anything save for her. He would become her treasured “pet” and anyone that tried to separate him from her would be stopped.

Less than a year after the first night together a pair of twins were born.

Talisia and her brother were raised never knowing how their lives came to be in this world. They were just twins different in appearance save for the identical stare of their mismatched eyes. While her brother was kept close to her mother’s side Talisia was raised with the love of her father. Everything he could remember he would teach her and every ounce of love he had for the world around them he would instill inside of her as well.

Her mother though was a woman easily brought to jealousy. Countless nights Talisia would sit outside without food for being too “emotional” and too attached to Kaleo. Nivedita called it training for Talisia to uphold the family’s name. No emotion was to slip through as that would only lead to mistakes in your life and having her father coddle her would only serve to make her weak.

It wasn’t Talisia who was weak though in the icy lands.

Kaleo was growing weaker. His body was conditioned for the freedom of traveling and for the warmer climates so the longer he was caged into the cold the more he found it harder to breath. Only his daughter’s loving smile and his son’s occasional melody would keep him there. It was their birth which had kept Nivedita’s hold on him after all and so the lady constantly would use the children to tie down poor Kaleo. Her selfishness and jealousy kept her paranoid about the shifter male as well. Even if he was sick what if she let him leave and he never returned? Surely she couldn’t have that. He would be fine because he was hers and she refused to let him die.

Talisia was too young to realize that the coughing fits her father had were growing worse and that his skin was getting unnaturally paler. His song as well was getting weak and she found that he didn’t run to play with her as much anymore. Over time though she found that her father was slipping away from her. It was the darkest night of her life when she realized that she couldn’t run into his arms anymore. There was no more light in her life and the halls were cold and quiet.

Mournfully both twins moved on with their lives as once more Nivedita found herself frozen. Lost in the guilt of losing Kaleo she found herself slipping away in random fits of insanity that would scare both children. Talisia was scorned and hated for being the one to take him away from Nivedita while her twin brother who resembled Kaleo was kept even closer to her side. Talisia only felt cold hatred from her mother who raised her to be cold and calculating as she was.

Talisia found herself lost. Without her father there wasn’t much light to be had in the world. Darkness kept slipping into play around her own heart and the girl constantly wondered if she faded into the icy lands would her spirit find her father’s as well? Once she tried, but her brother’s quick reaction kept her from diving into her own death.

Not having time to take care of Talisia he found others to do so. These others weren’t earthlings, however, and instead consisted of small animals he gifted to her. Surely healing injured animals would help keep her heart focused on living rather than death. In a way his plan worked and she found herself sneaking away from their mother to care for wild animals and tame alike. Her connection with the nature around her was the spirit that her father left for her. In those animals she poured the love that she had felt from him and in turn they loved her back as her mother never would.

Years began to pass and Talisia found herself slipping into the routine of strict training by day and peaceful healing by night. Her animals were a secret from her mother and her happiness was hidden by an icy expression. Out of all animals though a raptrix came into her life one day and the wild creature quickly came into Talisia's heart. It was hard at first taming a wild beast who thrashed in pain due to an injured leg, but once the healing process started both began to truly bond. Silva, she named him due to his silver pelt, became her friend who actually could start healing the void left by her father.

Of course not everything could remain so and it was in a fit of rage by her mother that Talisia found everything she had loved lost once more. Nivedita found Silva and discovered that her daughter's past time was healing animals. Angered that her daughter had some peace in her life and was 'wasting' her time with dirty creatures Nivedita struck out against them. Talisia could not stand by and watch as her mother tried to harm those she had healed. Her intervention redirected her mother's rage at the animals towards her instead. Only her brother’s intervention kept her crazed mother from killing her. Forbidden to ever come back the girl was tossed out into the bitter winds with only the image of her brothers flickering gaze bidding her goodbye.

In a way she could see what he said in her heart. Get away find a new life and one day I will catch up to you sister. All she could do was hope and pray that he was right.

Her heart full of hope and courage she took her few belongings and clutching the sun and moon pendant gifted to her by her father the girl took off. She was only half ice after all and now was the time to find out exactly what the shifter life promised her. Maybe somewhere out there on that horizon that her father often told stories of would be her happiness.

Only time would tell.