A girl can be born into a warm household; she can remember every distinct detail of such a household, with warm wooden flowers and sun beams cutting across the high ceilings. She can recall the exact shade of pink on the flower blossoms outside her bedroom window and the way the blue on her walls made her think of their summer trips to the ocean. A girl can do these things, and think, where did that life of mine go?
Because these things will only be snippets of a life past for a girl. She will sit in a field of ever-summer, letting sweet-faced girls braid endless crowns of flowers and put them in her flaxen hair because she has been told do so, and she will be thinking of this girl-before, this stranger that has memories in her head. A girl can wonder, what was she like before she came here? She can try to recall more memories of this bright-faced, laughing child that claims to have been a previous self, this sweetling of a girl that giggles and runs across warm wooden floorboards into the strong arms of a man that might have been her father, but she cannot because the memories end there.
A girl forgets who she was before because she stops being that sweet child that night. From then on, she is a guest (prisoner) in the court of some grand person whose names never reaches her ears; a girl is kept safe (jailed) inside the paradise (cage) and a girl forgets how to be a real girl and instead knows only how to sit and let pretty ladies braid the flowers into her long hair and drink the sweet summer wine they give to her in cup fulls.
She doesn't know for how long, but a girl will slowly come to realize that the ladies are spending less time with her. She will look into her reflection in the summer wine and see not a sweet-faced little girl but an almost-woman, and suddenly a girl will realize that the ladies have grown bored with her. So a girl will stand, for the first time in who knows how long, and make a tentative journey out of the ever-summer valley into a world that is much darker and colder.
For however long she walked, she spends more time thinking about what she's really doing; she doesn't know this place that she's venturing into, and a girl might think twice about going into it. But before she can change her mind, she's suddenly in a town, and everyone is asking a girl questions, like where have you been all this time and how are you doing, and all she can think is why didn't you try to find me?
The first year of her life after the ever-summer field is spent in awkward appearances with the people who claim to be her parents. A girl sits at the table and says please and thank you like they've told her to do, but she doesn't really know these people and she doesn't think she ever will. Now, a girl is in an unfriendly environment that is completely alarming to her; and shortly after that year of the new person she is becoming is up, her "parents" announce that she's going back to school.
A girl is put in a uniform and taken to a school where people whisper about her. They're supposed to be her friends, the headmaster tells her. But a girl only sees unfriendly faces, even though she is a warm and charming girl even in her social awkwardness. A girl tries very hard to become that child that was left behind in that warm wooden house, but suddenly it seems so much harder.
PLACE OF BIRTH, Astraia, Dresden.
FACE CLAIM, KARNEVAL, tsukumo — aurelia evander
SCHEDULE, Music, Archery, Literature, Physical Training.
INVENTORY, A necklace she was given in the ever-summer field; it's a simple silver chain with a seafoam green seeing glass on the end.