Thalya Balworth (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=90729)<br/><div class="floatright">(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w172/minarou/d51733c7-212f-4bfc-ad58-a6d67e51b00c.jpg)</div><br/>Ever since the episode on that ‘ship’, Thalya has not been her gregarious self, more so with her nephew, Norton.  They have not been seeing much eye to eye since the incident.  A curt nod or weak smile was all both could afford to signify any form of acknowledgment with each other.  She can’t say she was not ashamed by her actions back then, acting like the whore everyone thinks or says about her behind her back, for most of it is true, and Norton, well, in more ways than one, knows this better.<br/><br/>She did expect Alyssa to ask her about her and Norton’s accounts while she and the Al’ Rhayel were being ravished by the plant creature but the sorceress could never bring herself to divulge what exactly happened.  For Thayla feels, if she does so, she would lose more than trust from the flame-haired female captain if she finds out.  The busty sorceress admits, at least to herself, that her actions were influenced more with a sort of jealousy that was developing within her against Alyssa – for her obvious advances toward her nephew – than from the mystical machinations of Tenebrax’s minion that time.  And due to Alyssa’s getting closer to Norton, and him being much obliged to it, he has become more and more distant from her, which she secretly abhors.  But a part of her was rooting that she has beaten Alyssa to Norton first, and that she should be happy.  She knows that it is wrong, which is why these conflicting thoughts and feelings are making her hesitant to open up with her comrades, not now anyway.<br/><br/>Thalya is most worried over Al’Rhayel, for the druidess has become more recluse and distant, not appreciating the presence of anyone, most specially her and perhaps, as the sorceress suspects, her nephew.  For in the druidess’ eyes she sees them as responsible for letting her and Alyssa get raped, while the two blood relations where ‘indulging’ with each other.  Of course Al’Rhayel does not know what transpired between the two, of the insidious trap they were ensnared in, but that the fact it could have been mitigated and prevented, and Thalya knew this, they could have come earlier and barred the girls’ shameful fate.  Only time will tell if the druidess’ will come to accept all that has happened to her and decide to move on.<br/><br/>When the Esmeralda finally arrived on Ledon, Thalya felt somehow hopeful.  Setting foot on dry land is such a welcoming development after being cooped up on a ship at sea for countless days.  She hopes that the trek to the wizard’s tower would give them the chance to amend strained bonds with each other and earn each other’s trust once again.<br/>