((Before the scene is set, I’d like to say her name is not Lena, it’s iena. The upper case i makes it look like a lowercase L. Feel free to edit this out, I just wanted to make sure it was clear her name is Iena, not Lena.))

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Iena was from a poor family on the far side of their village, Irdeburh. Well…it was a bit too large to call a village, so let’s call it a small town. Irdeburh was in a relatively good spot—not too close to Eden’s Utopia, the center of the land and where the royal family resided, but not too far out, near the edge. It was far enough to avoid central conflict, but not far enough to struggle with resources.

Unless you’re Iena. Unless you’re anyone who wasn’t a soldier or merchant, who didn’t produce what people needed—food, clothing, weaponry, tools, medicine, an others of the like. Iena’s family made tapestries.

They had no other skills—just tapestries. After the Siege of Saria, where the previous royal family had been snuffed out and replaced with a new Patriarch, Iena’s family had been commissioned to make new tapestries for the new royal family. This was back when Iena’s grandfather was the head of the family, and he’d declined, his loyalty to the previous royal family. So, as punishment, they were branded with the previous royal families insignia, signifying that anyone branded with the insignia would be banned from working, and turned down from any educational system.

And so, Iena’s family slowly died out. Now, it was just her and her parents. Her mother was sick, and her father was lame. She was but a child of twelve…yet, she had matured quickly under the weight of extreme poverty, determined to help her family. She knew they had no money, so she came up with the half-baked plan of: Steal from the lord of their sanction. The noble in charge of Irdeburh, who was a wealthy medical practitioner.

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Early in the morning, Iena snuck onto the property of lord Trestis. She tested the doors—which she found were locked. So, she waited for someone to open a door, and she would sneak in. She waited in the back garden, for she had heard nobles often spent time there.