Name : Merina
Age : 25 turns
Impression Turn :
Gender : female
Orientation : bi-sexual, she/her
Status : candidate hopeful
Occupation/Rank :
Location : Darkling Dawn's 41st clutch!, Jasmith x Anubith hopefully 
Personality :  she is brave and loyal and with a loving heart.
 

   Merina was running through the woods her heart trembled and throbbed. It wasn't far behind her she knew she must keep running. The nagga beast would rip her apart. Let me step back a bit in this story. A Nagga beast is a mutated feline that looks like someone crossed a wher with a feline. Merina had no idea where they came from but they had been troubling her people for years. She works hard with the help of friends to fight these creatures off. It started 25 turns ago in midspring. She was born during a very traumatic attack on her cothold. Her mom screamed in pain, bleeding everywhere while the nurses feared for their life and the baby's. Then men were out battling these things and the evil scientist that created them. A huge one could be heard jumping on the building just as Merina let out her first breath and cry. "It's a girl! Look at them golden firey whisps of hair!" The nurse cried out as she handed her to another nurse to wash her while she tend to the exhausted and traumatized mother. "We have a problem the mother is struggling. with the panic and the smoke from the fires i don't think she'll make it. Keep the baby safe and from the smoke as much as possible. We don't want to lose her too." the nurse iinstructed. The other nurse did as asked with a sad expression on her face as she did. The creature on the roof busted in and the collapse of the ceiling sent a shard of wood into the mother's chest. The nurse tending to her shook her head no to indicate the mother was dead. The other nurse screamed and ran with the baby Merina clutched close to her chest. Looking back she saw the creature ripping the other nurse to shreds. The nurse couldn't do anything to save the other nurse nor the mother she only could think of the baby and getting her to safety. She ran far up into the mountains stumbling occasionally but getting quickly back to her feet. She didn't even dare stop to check herself for wounds. She eventually found and sought refuge in a cave that she thought was intended to be the start of a weyr or hold housing.

   The years passed as Merina grew into a vibrant young woman with dark auburn hair in long curls down to her hips. Her eyes were a vibrant blue-green hazel and her skin like fresh sweet milk. She stood 5'8" and had a lean build with graceful curves. It seems they suffered a huge loss to their people few live there now. Most moved to the nearest major hold and only a few stayed behind. She was reared in the cave for several months while her father repaired their home and others. The nurse moved in with them to be Merina's surragate mother. The nurse was called V'inna and her dad was named Je'of. Her father taught her to be brave and strong and how to fight the Nagga felines. Rumor had it someone had killed the creatures' creator. These days the wild beasts don't come around often but the people stay vigilant for rare attacks. The attacks usually happen in the cold seasons when food is scarce. Today had been one of them days. Merina was gathering wood for the fire when one suddenly attacked. She's usually brave but she knew she had to run to lead it away from the families. So she ran threw the woods fast as she could with the beast trailing her. When she reached a clearing she Swung herself swiftly up into a tree and quickly made a very rough, raw bow and arrow using tree branches and some rope from her rope belt. She took aim and just as she did the beast caught up and was about to pass her by when she fired and clipped it. As the best fell she jumped down on top of it and thrust the branch arrow deeper into it breaking it to a shorter length as she did. The hide was thick so the branch didn't penetrate well so she grabbed a rock and began pounding the beast's head as hard as she could as it tried to fight back. She ignored the scratches it inflicted until it was dead. Then she pulled a knife from her boot and cut into it until she managed to carve out it's heart. "I'll let them men know to come back and make this thing food for us or the dragons and whers. She limped home, told the men what happened and where to find it for carving, and then doctored her wounds.

   Now months go by and she journeyed to Darkling Dawn for the clutch she heard about and joined the candidacy. "A dragon will help me a lot. I need the companionship of a dragon and i can't fight vicious creatures or thread alone. I must be a dragonrider, a fighter, and a tanner, and i won't quit. I know my dragon will be strong and our bond true! Unhatched one I come to you and i'm yours! Live and be strong for me!"