(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/bd/Avatar_Kalinda_Denarius.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Kalinda Denarius</span></span>(played by caela)<br/>Female Human Rogue (Swashbuckler) 1<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Taking the effigy as it was handed to her, the blonde girl stared at it for a long moment. She didn't so much look nervous as she did thoughtful, as if she was uncertain what it was she wanted to say and was taking the time to compose her thoughts before speaking them. Slowly her fingers stroked the wooden phallus, not enticingly, more like a touchstone, it was in her hands and so she stroked it, touched it, learned it's feel with her fingertips while her eyes took on a distant cast and her thoughts traveled the paths of her past.<br/><br/><strong>"My true life began when I was five or six years old and I was adopted by the same people who had adopted my foster-sister Alicia. Even now I'm not entirely certain of my actual age. All I remember before being adopted is a vague memory of being sung to by a sweet soprano voice and a rumbling bass accompanying it sometimes. What happened to those voices I don't know, the orphanage said they were dead but never how and they seemed as uncertain of my past as I am...they even guessed at how old I was."</strong><br/><br/>Shaking her blonde head gently she looked around at the other women in the room with her, a small smile touching her lips when her gaze fell on her foster-sister, they'd been through a lot in their short lives together.<br/><br/><strong>"Once I was adopted though my foster-father took me under his wing. I spent years learning to work as a team with my "family". My foster-mother and sister singing, mesmerizing the crowds while we worked the crowds, cutting purses, picking pockets, relieving fools of their money,"</strong>she said, a small smirk on her lips as she thought of the ease with which they had all worked a crowd.<br/><br/><strong>"And then it all fell apart. Alicia ran and I wanted to strangle her for it. She left me there...alone. Our foster-father knew better than to turn his gaze toward me, he'd taught me too many of his own tricks to trust me but he did use my anger at Alicia to get me to help him hunt and track her down. He twisted my disappointment, my missing her, to use me to hurt her and once we had her back...he sold us both!"</strong>she growled the last, slapping her hand sharply with the phallus she held as if she wanted to use it to beat the man she was speaking of.<br/><br/><strong>"Despite the fact that I helped land her in that position though, Alicia saved us both,"</strong>she said, her voice softening and eyes shining with warmth as she glances at her foster-sister.<strong>"Saved us both so that we can seek vengeance on those who thought to use us to their own ends and discard us like so much trash."</strong><br/><br/>Suddenly her voice cut off and she simply held the phallus out for someone else to take, clearly not willing to say anything more.<br/><br/>Kalinda speaks emotionally about her past, adding to the tale already told by Alicia.