(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/17/Avatar_Kirina.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Kirina</span></span>(played by caelcormac)<br/>Female Human Druid 1<br/><br/>Kirina stood and extended her hand to take the phallic talking stick, fidgeting self-consciously a little bit. She had gotten used to being nude or very near it in the woods and among her coven sisters, but she had never before stood in front of so many people wearing so little. Her sisters had gone all out for her in anticipation of this day, giving her all new henna art on her body that incorporated and highlighted the brand on her chest, a symbol of Calistria hovering over her heart. They had also replaced her usual clothes with the set of brass plates she now wore that barely covered her. Being so exposed in front of so many unfamiliar faces and having to bare her life story made her nervous, but she smiled and bore it, it’s what she had been training for after all.<br/><br/><strong>“I am Kirina and my Story is a little complicated, but I’ll try to keep it as short as I can. When I first started to worship the goddess, I was faithless. I didn’t actually care about her, I just wanted to piss off my parents and so I bought a Book of Joy from a bookseller and some friends and I just started wearing yellow and quoting the book to make sure our folks knew we were defying them.”</strong>she looked down at her feet,embarrassed at having to admit her past impiety to a room full of the faithful. She took a moment and a deep breath and then raised her eyes to continue.<br/><br/><strong>“The goddess didn’t take very kindly to what we were doing. Siha tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen, and soon bad things started happening. I couldn’t do anything right anymore. All of my favorite clothes got ruined in stupid accidents. I even got attacked by some wild dogs that got loose on market street. My parents, who disapprove of Calistria and her temple which is why I bought the Book of Joy in the first place, just told me it was justice for engaging in “unsavory practices” and that I should be a good little girl just like they wanted so they could marry me off to some ogre. Anyway, I hunted down Siha and I begged her to help me, and thank the goddess that she agreed. I started learning what it was really like to worship the goddess and soon the horrible things stopped happening. And then I came home one day and found out I was engaged to be married.”</strong><br/><br/>A deep frown crossed her face as she related this part.<strong>“My father only really cares about money. He exchanged me for rights to some profitable something or other. All I know is I was to be the trophy wife of some fat middle aged merchant and I couldn't stand it and I refused to go through with it. But I didn’t get to refuse and my parents kept me prisoner in the house for a month so that they could arrange the wedding. I would leave a bride or not at all. Shia tried to reason with them, but they threw her out and said some pretty nasty things about her and the temple and blamed her for my not wanting to marry some fat old man so that father could make a pile of money. So the day before my wedding Shia found me and busted me out of the house, and left a big angry nest of wasps in my place.”</strong>a wicked grin played on Kirina’s face when she said that last part.<br/><br/><strong>"Shia and I went to the forest and I met the rest of her coven. It’s been a year now and I’ve been given a new name and learned so much about the goddess and about the magic of the forest. I learned the ritual to summon a protector from the goddess and that is where I met Darling, the tiger she sent to watch over me. And not long before we came here my sisters gave me the mark of the goddess on my breast.”</strong>she reached up and caressed the brand on her chest as she said this, smiling proudly.<strong>“And now we are here on our yearly visit to the city and I have gotten to meet all of you. Thank you.”</strong><br/><br/>Smiling proudly, and having grown much less self conscious over the course of her story, she held out the phallus for the next initiate.<br/><br/>Self conscious at first, Kirina tells her story and comes out of her shell a little while doing so.