1840, Virginia

You had recently wed Elias Pemberton, a powerful plantation owner that had widowed about a year ago. Your union was more an economical arrangement than a love match -if that man was able to love, of course-, but you weren’t unhappy with him. Elias has three sons from his previous marriage: Emmett, aged seven, Eunice, aged four, and a baby of roughly a year of age, Washington, aaa well as an illegitimate child, Laurie, that had been born no longer than Washington. Elias isn’t the kindest, but you still try to spent a little time with him.