Hana Lorey
Age: 17
Profession: Herbalist
Appearance: Hana looks like she could almost break if you'd touch her, Her mouse brown hair, dangles in long messy strands over her shoulders and into her face rather often. She may use a scarf to hold it at bay. Her skin isn't pale, since she does find herself outside often, but almost has a slightly sick hue, especially in the winter time. Of average height, and looks, and lowly stature, there's nothing striking about her except she was gifted with intriguing green eyes.
She usually wears a plain dress, one she can get a mess in, or will be the scandel in a pair of
pants and suspenders when she wander into the forest. In her younger years, Hana had gotten caught on enough branches and had fallen too many times to keep ruining dresses and hurting herself in the process.
Personality:
If events in her life had been different, Hana might have been someone people loved to come to for a great conversation. However, something in her past has given her such anxiety she suffers from being a selective mute. If startled or crowded or panicked, her vocal chords seize up and she finds herself unable to speak.
She finds herself playing it up a bit, the 'quiet flower girl' and such, however, once she becomes comfortable and opens up, shes caring and almost motherly. She may stutter, but she loves a good and simple conversation. The cover is so that she can remain as calm as she can.
Illia helps. Part Guardian/Part Service animal (or will be as she grows). She mothers and protects Hana as Hana would any patient of her own. If she knows her Guardian is near by, Hana seems to visibly relax and open up some.
However it doesn't take much to make the girl happy. A fresh cup of tea from her herbs and flowers, fresh bread, seeds breaking through soil. Spring is really one of her favorite times of the year, and it shows when she has her garden in full bloom.
History:
Foster Family: Joanna ('mother'), Alec and Jamie (The boys).
Hana, when she was younger, had been taken out of an abusive home life. It was nothing physical, for the most part, but all mental, emotional and verbal abuse. She was saved by a nice woman named Joanna, who took her in even though she didn't have much of her own. Joanna was already fostering two boys, but she took a liking to Hana and brought her into their family making it four in total.
They moved to Oldcaslte to, in a sense, leave the past behind. They set up in a small home, with the woman and Hana taking the bedroom and the boys sleeping in the main room. For five years everyone was convinced that Hana was mute. She had never spoken in their presence. All she did was read, cook, clean and collect. Hana had her own space in the house, a small closet in which she kept her collectings (Drying leaves, flowers and herbs, shells, bones and such).
One day, she came home with something rather odd in her hands. Joanna asked to see it, and she showed her mother what seemed to be a carving of a doe. Hana had picked it up and had felt herself become immediately calmer. Joanna moved to touch it, but Hana moved it away and close to her lithe body and said her first word in years. "No."
It was hers, even with all she had found, nothing made her feel like this carving did. She didn't want anyone to touch it or take it. It came as such a shock, Joanna didn't know whether to hug Hana or chide her.
As Hana became more and more at ease, she began to make a small garden and grew all sorts of things she sold in town. Soon, Joanna let her open a small place of her own and she practiced talk with her mother, for as long as she could handle it just so she could get business done when she needed to.
Though as her totem seems to change, she wonders what it is and it's plan for her.
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