Character Profile...
Name: Airlie Costas
Species: Human
Height: 5'6
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: grey
Home World: Asmiara
Home Land: Adrealia
Face Claim: Nikoleta Lozanova
Growing up...
She was born in the human kingdom of Adrealia. The place that was known for not allowing supernatural creatures in it's borders in a world where there were many times of magical beings. She was born on a border town along with her three brothers and one sister. She had no reason to think her world would ever extend past the her small world.
Her mother died giving birth to her younger sister and her father did his best to take care of his family. However, it was easier for him to drink his cares away most the time than deal with his own failures. As a man in a world where men are suppose to look after their females and protect them. He saw his wife's death despite the fact that it was simply fate as his fault somehow.
The more they needed the further into despair he fell. Her brothers did their best to by getting odd jobs as did Airlie. Her younger sister didn't make it to her second birthday she would die of an illness that was common to the poor of the area. They buried her the best they could and her father slumped further into his depression.
Coming to grips with the idea that he was a failure he killed himself leaving Airlie and her three brothers alone in the world. The four of them made a pact to do the best they could. However, one by one fate would take them away from her.
One By One They Fall Down...
Her oldest brother would be killed in an accident in the mine he worked at. It caved in on him and no one was able to get him out. The second one fell in with the wrong crowd trying to follow his dreams and he ended up getting killed in a brawl. Her last brother and her managed to find work helping others to make enough to feed themselves but their lost their home and had to wander the streets. He caught a chill and she was left watching him fade away as he finally died and she was left alone.
Being a lone was a horrible enough fate in and by itself. But, in her home land a girl could not be alone. They had to have a man to take care of them. And if they didn't have a male guardian they only had a few choices. One was to hide from the guards and hope not to be found out. The other was to ask those in charge for a guardian to be assigned to them. The last was to become the property of one of the houses that served men.
They would become your guardian and in exchange you would serve men for their pleasure. It would provide you with food and shelter as well and if you were really pretty you might get picked to be in one of the state ran ones that catered to the elites.
The elites being the soldiers who kept the borders safe from the supernatural creatures of their world. They had gifts of their own and gave up their lives to protect the masses. She joined one of these houses in order to take care of herself it was here that she would come to met him.
A Chance Encounter...
He came into the whore house she was working at and he decided she was too good to be working there so he took her the capital and set her up in a house there. The type of place that her dusty little town didn't have. While she might still have the same job she was treated better here. She even met the princess who is a client of hers in this upscale place.
Alaric is one of her regulars as well and the two of them are sort of friends or she likes to think that they are friends. It is an honor to serve the elites and as such she is will protected from any that might want to hurt or abuse her.
It isn't the perfect life but it isn't a bad life and some seem to think that in time Al will take her as a mistress and pull her out of the life altogether. She even began to think such a thing might happen that was until she got sick. The illness was expensive to fix and the owner of the house wouldn't pay the money for a whore. So, she knows she will die without care and she lives to please others for as long as she can that was till she met another.
A New Dream...
He came into her work one day and asked for her services. She never expected to be drawn to someone like she was to him. They talked and he told her he was a dragon and took her flying. She found herself spilling the details of her life to him and that she was dying. She told him that no one would want to be with someone like her.
He told her he would. She was moved by his feelings and agreed to leave with him. He also says he will find a way to help her get better. She has no idea what to think that kind of money is hard to come by but she believes him. She hasn't felt this way about a lot of people. Is it love? She doesn't know. But, she does know she cares about him and he is important to her and that he wants to look after her and for now that is enough. The rest she will discover in time.
