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Silver Lake....
Mature Content warningI decided the best way of starting the character... was from detailing the day of her birth from her mother's point of view. If you are queasy... Leave now XD. But not you Cachet! You deserve this reading horror! XD
In the waters of the Silver lake a konti woman K'lala swam as her body continued the pains of Childbirth. She had been meditating , seeking the guidance of their race's mother -goddess Avalis in the Silverood for a glimpse of her child's future. This was only after she had sought out the matron of the Silver Lodge to seek the fortune for the coming child. She had been told to take a sabbatical of sorts, and meditate by the far side of the lake, praying devoutly to Avalis for her blessing of the child's life within her.
'A konti child took three hundred and sixty five days to form and be birthed... almost as steady as the passing of the seasons itself. But...' K'lala's gills fluttered beneath the waters as a wave of childbirth racked her body. 'This one was early. Why was this happening? Was her body rejecting the baby?'
As the first signs of pain had wracked her body, K'lala had tried to stand to walk back around the lake's edge to the Lodge, content that the matron would help her. But along the way she had lost her footing and fallen down the steeper parts of the embankment into Silver Lake's waters. Unable to climb up, she had struck out towards the far shore where the white stone of the lodge could be seen. At the lodge, a salt water bath could be drawn, or a horse could be summoned to take her to the sea if she had that time.
The pains were early after all, it had only been eleven months since she had last lain with the child's father? She had to have the date right, shouldn't she? It was the night before Jared went off to his quest and she was returning to the Opal Order... that had to be-' A tremor of pain wracked the woman's stomach muscles mid-stroke towards the far shore as she thought of the peril she was placing the child in.
The lake's waters were taken care of not to be sullied, and on many occasions the deep waters beneath the surface housed a miraculous display of coral and kelps that were soothing to the eye. Pale fish, oddly luminescant would meander around, and the mother's council demanded that the waters remain pure. There had only been half a handful of konti born in the lake before , and all of them had been racked with problems during their first year of life. Problems deriving from their gifts.
That was one of the many reasons the council only allowed the waters to aid the birthing process in matters that required the child's healing. But only under an Opal Order Healer. Vision water was a forever potent reminder of Avalis' blessing. K'lala knew however she wasn't fit to help herself in such matters of childbirth... perhaps if she could go the longer journey she might find help in the docks.
But the Lodge was closer. It would be best for K'lala to go there.
As the woman swam beneath the waters surface towards her destination, her body shuddered once causing her to swallow a bit of the vision water within the lake as a Vision came to her beleagured senses. Stunning her enough that she lost track of swimming and began to sink deeper into the lake's darkness. Her body began to shudder more as the pains of childbirth continued as her mind became vested with the visions of the past, and of the future...