07-02-2008, 04:19 PM
She smiled as the other spoke of Firefly's strange relations to the clans of Ireland, she shook her head and agreed. "We were more than surprised when they took us in, I mean, as blood. Once you got to know them the hill folk are quite lovely..." She could still remember running through the hills and valleys with the other youth from the clan, how they'd creep up on the adults in the wildlands and try and raid the actual hunting parties as they returned. Too soon it seemed that they all had to grow up and play real roles in life, but she'd enjoyed every moment of it at the foot of her ollamh, the old ways of Eire and the secrets of the dreamers. She'd dreamed true dreams but had left them behind in the mists of Ireland, too far she'd roamed from the green lands to dream now... and she wished it wasn't so.
Raising her eyes to the other she admitted. "I would have loved to have stayed, but I made promises to return here.. though I can't call these lands home truly." with the encouragement of the other woman Firefly sat upon the sands with the lady and ran her fingers through the fine grains as she smiled and began to tell her a bit about her wayward life and the adventures that belonged to her.
"Once I lived here with my three siblings, I guess we were a happy family as the come, our father was the alpha of Storm, or mother respected.. but she hadn't belonged to Storm like our father had. She'd had a whole other life before coming to those lands, and we had half siblings and adopted kin as well. I guess our father didn't trust my half brother, though he was of a darker broading nature.. in the end DaVinci left the lands to find his own sister and I followed. Everyone assumed that he'd kidnapped me.. mother didn't believe it and left the rest of our family to find us..." she grinned at the though and admitted the truth. "About the time that we found Magdalena our mother found us.. She didn't even know that Mags was alive.. something bad had happened in their past and my sister was believed to have been drownt in the sea.." Firefly gazed off into the distant waves as she remembered her own story. "After the tearful and joyful reunion mother allowed me to stay with my half siblings and we made up our minds to sail to Ireland.. with the help of some travelers who were returning home to the emerald island.." She smiled at the other and paused, tossing out a question to the other lass as she picked at a seashell. "What was it like really belonging to the lands?" she'd always been jealous of those from Ireland who could claim to be part of the dark and mysterious history, while Firefly only became part of it through chance.
Raising her eyes to the other she admitted. "I would have loved to have stayed, but I made promises to return here.. though I can't call these lands home truly." with the encouragement of the other woman Firefly sat upon the sands with the lady and ran her fingers through the fine grains as she smiled and began to tell her a bit about her wayward life and the adventures that belonged to her.
"Once I lived here with my three siblings, I guess we were a happy family as the come, our father was the alpha of Storm, or mother respected.. but she hadn't belonged to Storm like our father had. She'd had a whole other life before coming to those lands, and we had half siblings and adopted kin as well. I guess our father didn't trust my half brother, though he was of a darker broading nature.. in the end DaVinci left the lands to find his own sister and I followed. Everyone assumed that he'd kidnapped me.. mother didn't believe it and left the rest of our family to find us..." she grinned at the though and admitted the truth. "About the time that we found Magdalena our mother found us.. She didn't even know that Mags was alive.. something bad had happened in their past and my sister was believed to have been drownt in the sea.." Firefly gazed off into the distant waves as she remembered her own story. "After the tearful and joyful reunion mother allowed me to stay with my half siblings and we made up our minds to sail to Ireland.. with the help of some travelers who were returning home to the emerald island.." She smiled at the other and paused, tossing out a question to the other lass as she picked at a seashell. "What was it like really belonging to the lands?" she'd always been jealous of those from Ireland who could claim to be part of the dark and mysterious history, while Firefly only became part of it through chance.