Role

Chapter 7

Gabooca grew up a middle child, with an older brother and younger sister. Her
brother would get most of the attention, when her little sister wasn't doing
something so incredibly cute her parents melted. Gabooca would get her own
attention, usually in ways that either scared or horrified her parents. Her
last Yuletide was no different.

It was cold in the Udgaard mountains this time of year, and she decided to play
a prank on her brother and sister. This would prove disastrous and something
Gabooca still regrets.

Gabooca's sister, Valendra, was only 6 years old. She was cute, with high cheek
bones and light yellow beak. A single red feather hung from the middle of her
head, and she would always have to move it from her big eyes. She was the spitting
image of cute. Her brother, Bealit was 16, he was stern, and serious about his
studies, he was to take over their Royal family one day, afterall. There was one
thing Gabooca's parents always warned her and her siblings about, Orcs. "They
were vile, disgusting creatures," they'd say, "and some live just in the mountains
below, and they'll eat you!" Now, Gabooca, was never scared, she used to regularly
sneak out into the mountains, but her sister was terrified. This year, she would
bring the orc's to Valendra and Bealit.

They lived in a huge palace, where the three could all play in a different corner
and go unnoticed for hours. Gabooca had a brilliant idea, she would go down to
the mountains, collect piles of snow, bring it up to the house and build a scary
orc in her sibling's bedrooms that would drop on top of them when they laid down
to sleep. A harmless prank that would scare them so bad they'd be sure to give
Gabooca more attention, and she'd do it the night before the Yule, where everybody's
guard was down and they were all expecting gifts, cookies, and sweet nectar water.

Well, Gabooca pulled it off. She built orc replicas out of snow and covered
them with dirt to match the color. Hanging from the ceiling, the replicas were
almost identical to some orc paintings her parents had shown her. They definitely
scared the hell out of her sister, scared her so bad, she fell out of bed and
broke her wing in 3 places. Her brother didn't speak to her after that, it scared
him so bad he wet the bed. Unfortunately, a week later was when Gabooca was
kidnapped by the troglodytes. She doesn't know what happened to her siblings and
noone speaks of it, but she does know her parents died in the search. She wishes
that wasn't the last thing she did.