The beginning of everything
Open fields and clean air was all the little girl ever wanted in her life scurrying not unlike the field mice through the overgrowth in order to explore her territory that she had grown up with. A young daughter of a farmer couple. Her short green hair clinging tightly to her skin, slightly matted due to her adventurous nature. Life was simply the way things always was and why would the young girl ever want to change that? Though unbeknown to her then that day would be the first major leap towards her growth as a poisoner.
She was playing further and further away from her home each day, eventually she had finally mustered the courage to play in the woods and so treading carefully in her crudely wrapped feet cause her family couldn't afford proper footwear. She explored this new domain where her mother entered every so often to pick up those herb things. So imagine a young girl of around 6-7 tiptoeing on the edge of a steep slope where the bottom had either trees or mushrooms. That was exactly how it was. Ahead of her she spotted a rather steep incline that she felt she should climb. It seemed stable enough from how she was looking at it and so she ran up to it, determined to conqueror what was in actuality only really a short mound but to the little girl it was a obstacle until it was climbed.
She clambered up it gripping onto the roots for a bit of support in order to get up onto the mound. As she made a mess of her cloths from rubbing against the dirt. It didn't make much difference really since hygiene was not really a thing a peasant could afford beyond the occasional washing in the stream which even then wasn't a completely good way to wash yourself. Her eyes widened with self gratification as she stood atop the mound looking down at all the insects crawling on the forest floor. She was the empress now~ She giggled as she stepped back in order to hop down only to catch herself on the very same root she used to climb up. She tipped backwards as her mind suddenly went numb with fear in the few moments of suspense as she continued tilting back further and further.
She tumbled down the mound and into the ditch brushing past all manner of things and crushing even more beneath her. As her head collided with a tree leaving her dazed and bruised. She groaned as she held her head, cursing herself for her foolishness as she tried to get to her feet only for alot of pain to shoot through her right arm. It was dead smack in the middle of a congregation of nettles. Most girls her age would start crying but not this girl. In fact as she slowly pulled her arm out of the nettles, said arm now throbbing from the stings. She began to poke and prod them with the same arm so as to not hurt her good arm. Analysing the plant with almost excessive curiosity. If such an item could cause so much pain... maybe she could use it to become better then all the other boys and girls! Yes, while they were busy fighting with sticks and things in order to be like their barbaric fathers she could slip a bunch of nettles into their shoes.
The girl giggled at the thought. Maybe this is why her mother liked to work with plants so much. They could heal and hurt... They were natures little tools for either giving the gift of life or death. She grabbed a few big leaves from a tree as she wrapped up her light devilish toys into them as she grabbed as many as she could fit into one hand. Her eyes filled with sort of glee that could only be seen in a child finding the biggest best toy in the supermarket.
She scampered home eventually reaching her villages location. The group of girls helping their mothers shot her a rather dirty look as if they were looking at the most petty imitation of a woman they could ever conceive. She just shook her head at them and ignored them as she walked up to her hut her mother standing at the open door frame tapping her foot as she stared down at her child. Her mothers dark green hair swaying from the slight spring breeze.
"Locusta. Your late I was so worried!" She said her stern face cracking down into one of concern as she doted on her child hugging her close as the young girl squirmed in her mothers grip as her mom dragged her inside...
Locusta ran from rooftop to rooftop. She had vanished from that fight the moment she saw Berserker take her master away. Simply put since she was still here her master was okay. She was simply taking this time to reflect on how the world had changed. The air wasn't as clean as she remembered but the cursing in the streets was still the same even after all this time. There was no magical artefact or anything. Just people with devices called telephones that could communicate over extra long distances. How selfish of them to put all messengers out of jobs now who could she kill if someone sent her a terrible message. Honestly people were just forgetting about the real quality of life.
She stopped on top of the Inn from her rooftop running as she made sure nothing and nobody was present in the streets below as she crept through the window behind Albert. Hoping he won't get annoyed. Her green hair was loose again because well, she wasn't really needing to kill anyone and she wanted to relax a bit in this downtime between fights. She was herself 'Locusta of Gaul' instead of that other moniker that she liked to used so much.
She tapped his shoulder as he used the mental connection to signify he wanted to talk to her.
"You know words work so much better then using a vocal connection which might I add is really really annoying when your trying to think about things Master but I forgive you" She said with a grin as she slide in front of him flicking his nose gently.
"So what is it you want to say? Talk and I shall listen though I'll have to warn you I get distracted easily." She said twirling her finger in her hair as she said so. Her mind wondering if this place had any gardens or gardening supplies nearby.
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Shiny Keldeo,
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