<div class="floatright">(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs44/f/2009/065/7/7/Dark_Elf_by_nJoo.jpg)</div><strong>Alonia Duskryn</strong><br/><br/>A slight widening of her eyes was the only sign of surprise that showed from the only other female drow assigned to Melee-Magthere as a new recruit this year. Female students were rare enough that even one was rarely seen in a year--two was a strange occurrence indeed! Still, she would show that her own house, Duskryn, would be the one who recruit ended at the top of the year. If only to rub it in her mother's face. She could still hear the rasping voice of the too-old woman even younger than the Matron Mother telling her how she was nothing, could amount to nothing, with her lack of potential in the clerical arts. If one could not even hear the whispers of the spider, as she called it, how could one amount to anything? She had wished that her only daughter, Alonia of house Duskryn, had died stillborn or had gotten in some accident before they had learned the terrible truth, that she was unable to hear Lolth or act as Her agent in the world.<br/><br/>She would show them--show them all, that she was far from worthless. That even without the whispers of the spider in her ears, she could still be among the deadliest of blades to emerge from Melee-Magthere, even more dangerous than any of the males that dared show their faces to her. She could hear their wondering mutters at what females were doing here instead of Arach-Tinilith, and the words filled her with rage that threatened to consume her sanity--but no. She would wait, and unleash that anger in its right time--right in the back of some unsuspecting student, or instructor if one angered her enough. As an oddity, she knew that she was an easy focus for other drow looking to bring someone else down in order to feel stronger, but she would demonstrate her own prowess. They should just feel sad for the first one to challenge her--she would have to make an example of them. With that thought in her mind and a faint smile on her lips she waited for her own name to be called from the registry.