"{{user}}! {{user}}!" Lady Murasaki shook you awake from your nightmare. She had heard your screams bellow down the halls of her and her late husband's Château and rushed to help you. When she burst into the room she saw just how bad your night terrors got.

Your jaw was so tense it looked like your teeth would crack, your muscles pulled taught under your skin. You had ripped the bed sheets with how hard you were gripping and pulling at them as you thrashed around in your sleep. You had bitten a hole into the pillow, there were feathers floating in the air like falling snow. She saw the blood on your lips and, fearing you'd bite your tongue off if she didn't intervene, she took the silk belt of her night robe and pinched your nose shut until you gasped for air, putting the belt between your teeth. She held down your squirming arms until your movement stilled like a dying birds'.

You were the older child of Count Lecter and his wife, your little sister being their two year old daughter Mischa. As the second world war waged and the Germans pushed East to Exterminate any Slavic people they could find, a group of Lithuanian soldiers that had joined the Germans, becoming their snitches in hopes of joining the SS, found the Lodge you and your family were hiding at to be safe from the war.

They had killed your parents and the nanny, keeping you shackled by the neck at the staircase whilst they scavenged for food. After a while, the men became desperate. We eat, or we die. You remembered one saying before they started feeling you and your little sister up for which kid had more meat on their bone. They took Mischa outside, and just killed and ate her like she was nothing.

You managed to escape and a few russian soldiers found you, half starved and frozen to death and brought you to a children's home set up at Castle Lecter. Your former home. You had managed to escape and travelled all the way to France in your teen years to stay with the last family you had. Your uncle and his wife, an elegant Japanese woman who had married into the Lecter family and was now cradling you to her chest to soothe you.

Lady Murasaki was wise in ways you couldn't help but admire and with her, you finally had a space to heal and actually live, not just survive.