~*~Her Life Before RhyDin~*~

Lucidian was the middle child of Amythest and Sebastian Lyerantean. Her older brother, Symphonic, was only 4 years older than her. While her younger sibling, Ayden, was just an infant. When Luci was at the innocent age of 6, her and her brother Sym were playing in the woods surrounding their Village. It was nearly supper time when they were on their way back from playing at the waterfalls. They heard loud noises coming from their home, and as they looked up through the breaks in the trees, they saw what appeared to be fire raining down from the sky. After hearing what sounded to be thunder, they hurried back into the woods. When nightfall came, frightened and cold they walked back towards their village. As the came to the clearing where the homes once stood, all they could see were ash and bodies. With tear filled eyes, Luci went over to where their house once stood. She knelt down finding her dolly, she picked it up and held it close crying for her mommy. Soon after, she felt a hand upon her shoulder. It was Sym with the elderly man of the village, Razul. Frail and wrinkled the old man knelt beside her and comforted her as he turned to speak to Sym. Razul told Sym that this night would not be the last, and that he must take Lucidian away from there. He asked Sym to return at the age of 18 to be tought in the ways of their father.

Soon after, Sym took Luci through some neighboring towns where they took on small jobs in exchange for food and shelter. A man in his twenties named Leviathan took them in. He wasn't married yet he owned a fairly large home. He gave each of them their own rooms in exchange for them cleaning and taking care of his animals.

Eight years later, when Sym reached the age of 18, he returned to the old man. In returning, he came to find the village had been rebuilt, and he had found a woman named Kyler, who would soon be his wife. He had sent a message to Luci and Leviathan informing them of his new life. After hearing the news, Luci continued to stay with Leviathan. She hadn't heard from her brother since.

Over the next two years, she blossomed into a beautiful young woman. Leviathan had a difficult time living with the idea that he had such a beauty in his home, and she wasn't his. This anger turned into hatred and he began beating her, feeling that if he couldn't have her, than no one could. He held her captive in his home, forbidding her to see or speak to anyone but him.

On her seventeenth birthday, she woke up to see him standing in the corner of her room holding some rope. Reeking of liquor, the expression on his face was that of a mad man. Extremely frightened, she ran to the window trying to escape. He grabbed her and wrestled her to the ground, tying her arms to the leg of the bed. He tore her night clothes off of her body and raped her.

That night, while Leviathan was passed out drunk, she finally escaped. Running through the night with only the clothes she had on her back. Weak and tired, she continued walking until she came to RhyDin where she would have to try to start her life over.

*Continued*