Athynae Sarethi: The Making of a Princess, Entries from Athynae's childhood journals Options

[Athynae]

Hey guys, well seeing as Athynae and sometimes Athlain's antics as children have been referenced in Blood on the Moon and each time I have found myself writing the "memory", mostly in an effort to better understand her, I thought I would share some of those blasts from the past with you. The entries will not necessarily be in order, just snapshots from here and there at different ages and occasionally some entries from the PoV of other friends and family just to add some spice. The first entry will be the story of Athynae getting her first journal and why.




I hope you enjoy Athynae's childhood antics, I have sure had fun writing the handful that I have so far. Even better are some of the "memories" from others who know her. Just be cautious while reading with any beverages close as she has a tendency to speak her mind (like you didn't know that) and we all know what that can mean when a child is involved.




"Mama are housecats baby Khajiitt??" While standing next to a family of Khajiit in market square kind of thing.




*Note: It has been pointed out that Athynae seems a bit mature for her age in some of the entries and if I were gauging her by my two eldest children that would be true(quite normal but no less wonderful), however two ideas mingled together in regard to her intelligence and maturity; One- She is her own person and there is no comparing her to anyone on that level; Two- I sort of combined my two youngest children, my daughter who is and always has been an adult (just ask her) and my son who, at the age of two, slipped out the sliding glass door, off of the deck that was 5 feet off the ground (we have no idea how he did it), climbed the fence and went to the neighbor's to help him work on a car, oh, and he only had on a pull-up, my motorcycle goggles and his sister's paten leather dress shoes.




Please do what you do, comment, correct, suggest but most of all I hope you enjoy.





Athynae Serethi- The Making of a Princess…





I dedicate this endeavor to the three people who are responsible for Athynae's existence:




minque for creating her and graciously sharing her with treydog




treydog for making her a part of Athlain's world and subsequently introducing me to her through his story then allowing me to become her writer




and of course




Black Hand who has allowed me to make Seth such an important person in Athynae's life.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

This post has been edited by Athynae: Feb 3 2012, 03:09 AM

[Athynae]

Thanks mALX and Acadian, man that was quick.


This is the first full entry in Athynae's journal, and every subsequent journal as well, she'll explain...


Inside the cover of the first journal…


To Her Highness the Princess of Trouble,
Congratulations on completing your fourth year. A very Happy Birthday to you. Fill these pages with memories so you can look back and remember you were once a child.

Uncle S



The ony reezen he sez he mayd me that is cuz I git into all most az much trouble az he duz an if thas troo then good I will be her highness princess of trouble forever.


Page 1
I got it I got it I got my bow from the ahemssa mama sed I culd have it when I gro up an I got it two day at my birthday cele sela pardy. I am going hunting az soon az I can git a way frum my nurs kowshy

I went hunting fond a beetle got a arow and put it on the string and pulled then uncle seth showed up and made me not shoot it and ast me if I was trying to kill myself I was not shoting the arrow backward he is so mean sometimes he brought me home and made me give him my bow until he culd lern me how to use it.



Page 2
I ges befour I put a lot of stuf in here the most portant thing is the story bout how I becam a princess cuz I never ever never wanna four get that story it wuz tha most portant day of my life.

I had read these words so many times over the years, and in some ways that day would always be the most important day of my life. I am caught now in a whirlwind that brings me back to these pages to remind myself who I am, where I came from and the lessons I have learned before I leave here. Everyone will be angry with me for a while I am sure, nothing new to me…but something is terribly wrong with Athlain and I have no choice. I have traveled with Mother and Father and I have stayed with the Ahemussa for a summer but I have never been on my own, alone. The first story in each of my journals is this one, and so once again upon fresh pages I retell the story. Each time the words change only slightly as my vocabulary has grown and I hope my spelling has improved, I do know that my handwriting is at least legible now.

I was two days from my fourth birthday, and I had decided that being four meant I was going to be a grown up. To prove my point prior to the big day, just to make sure everyone was in agreement with me I slipped the watchful eyes of my nurse, Kausha. That in itself was nothing new, I did it at least once a day but this day I planned a giant adventure. I can remember my knees shaking as I opened the door and stepped outside for the very first time without an adult. I was going to find Athlain and get him to go with me. I knew Aunt Baria and Uncle Trey were in Skar because the council was in session so I headed to the home they stayed in when they were here.

I slipped and slid and ducked and ran all the way there, three houses down. I weaseled my way around to the back door and peeped in to make sure no one was in the kitchen and made my way into the house. It wasn't fair really but Athlain didn't have a nurse, Aunt Baria took care of him. Mother told me it was because she had to be away so much with Redoran business, I understand that now, then I did not.

I tiptoed into his room and quietly closed the door. "Psst, Athlain, where are you?"

He came out of the room they called the nursery through the adjoining door. "Hey Fena, did your Mom bring you to play?"

"Nope, she did not. I am a grown up now or I will be in two days so I came by myself." I tried to puff myself up and look as big as I could. "Let's go outside."

"HUH UH! Mother would have a red face fit! I can only play in the nursery. She will be back to check on me soon, she checks on me all the time." It was always like this at first, but I knew I could bring him around so I continued

"Are you a scaredy rat? Huh? I walked ALL THE WAY over here all by myself and you won't even go outside with me? What kind of friend are you anyways?" As soon as he looked down at the floor I knew I had won. "Come on, we'll go out the balcony door in the nursery, it's easier." And so we did.

Out the door, onto the balcony and up, I know now that was where my plan fell apart, but it sure seemed like the best idea at the time because there wouldn't be anyone to catch us on the roof. And so there we were, watching all the people milling about and talking about them making up stories about them, where they lived, what they did for a living, etc. I don't know how the argument started, I think in the aftermath I forgot because it was irrelevant. But all of a sudden Athlain was on his feet with his fists tight, holding them in front of his chest with a face that looked like he had been forced to eat trama root.

"I am bigger than you, take that back or I will beat you up." He tried to look mean, he did, try that is, but it didn't work.

"Oh don't be silly Athlain, you are still just a baby and I am all grown up." And I mussed his hair. I think I need to add that there was a slight incline to the roof and Athlain was on the down side. Anyway, when I rubbed his head and smiled he drew his fist back and said

"TAKE THAT BACK!! I mean it, I am gonna rearrange your face!"

I bent down as I was saying "You are too mean Athlain Treyson" and when I stood up I had my wooden dagger that Uncle Seth had given me and I pointed it at him and yelled "BOO!" an eye blink later "A T H L A I N!!! NNNOOOOO!" As he went over the edge of the roof and down. There was a cloth cover over the balcony which caught him or rather slowed him down but he just rolled right off of it and down he went again. It just so happened that there were a couple of chairs outside, they kind of looked like a cross between one of the beds the Ahemussa slept in and giant pieces of the cloth Mother cut up to make bandages. He landed in one of those, but he broke his arm.

I climbed down, all the way down, I didn't bother going through the house because I had to get to him fast. But by the time I got there Aunt Baria was already there. She looked at his arm then at me then at him but all he said was "I fell".

"Athynae how did you get here young lady?" She had her head bent and she was looking at me with her eyes wide which was never a good look.

"I uh, um, I" I don't know if thought I could dig a hole with my toe to crawl into but my toe was certainly giving it a shot, "well, Kausha went into her room and I wasn't tired and.."

"Stop right there, you needn't go any further." She picked Athlain up who was being VERY brave and only whimpering a lot and carried him in the house back up to his bed. And I followed, no need to add more to it by doing something totally stupid. "Sit down Athynae, I have to take care of this first and THEN I will take care of you." Before she was done I heard someone coming up the stairs and I just had a feeling it wasn't one of the retainers because his boots were too heavy.

"Baria, what happened?" Uncle Seth looked like someone had cast a fireball in his face. "Thyna would you like to tell me what happened?"

"No sera I would not." I didn't want to tell surely he knew that.

"Athlain fell from the balcony. I suppose they were out there playing. Apparently Athynae decided to come for a visit without a chaperone."

"Um Aunt Baria?" she looked at me "He didn't fall from the balcony, he fell from the roof." The look on both of their faces told me I should not tell everything I know. I still do not do well with that one, my mouth shoots before my brain has nocked an arrow.

"Baria, I will take her home. Is there anything I can do before I go?" I was in trouble, and I hated being in trouble with Uncle Seth, he wasn't swayed by the 'I'm really sorry' look, not one bit. SHOOT!

"No Seth thank you, I don't think it is anything that a simple potion and some medicinal salve won't fix. Athynae you are not quite old enough to be out by yourself dear. I do love you so and I would hate for you to get hurt."

"I don't get hurt Aunt Baria it's always Athlain." Before I got the last words out Uncle Seth had picked me up out of the chair and started out the door.

"Uncle Seth why is your face so red? You look like you shot a fireball and it came back and hit you."

"SSHH! Not now Thyna, not yet. You really need to be quiet for a few moments while I decide how I am going to incapacitate you for the next ten years."

"What is inca incap inpacicitate?"

"It means you cannot move." He was holding his lips very tight and the muscles in his jaw were working back and forth like the baker's hand when he made dough.

"But I don't want to be inpalcacitatered."

"Why did you leave the manor without Kausha? Why do you insist on making trouble when your Mother is occupied with Redoran affairs?"

"Because I had to show Mother that I will be all grown up on my birthday, that I do not need Kausha anymore. I didn't get hurt, I went all the way to Athlain's and I didn't get hurt."

"What happened to Athlain?" He said raising one of his eyebrows, which made him look really scary.

"I didn't push him!"

"Then what did happen?"

"He fell, like he said, I promise." I knew I wasn't lying.

By this time we had reached the manor. Instead of taking me inside we walked around back to the garden. "Sit, right here." He said as he put me down pointing to a chair. "Now I want you to tell me exactly what happened."

"He fell, well, sort of, But I did not push him. I did not."

"Sort of, explain sort of." Seth had known me all my life and he was well aware of how literal and explicit questions needed to be phrased. I would not lie but ….

"We were just playing" and I sank in my chair, pouting, I really was sorry he had gotten hurt. I hated it when he got hurt. "and he said something and I said something and he didn't like what I said and he got up and put up his fistes and said he was bigger than me and that he could beat me up. And I told him he was being mean and he told me he would rearrange my face and I showed him my dagger and yelled boo and he jumped. That's the whole story, 'cept he fell all the way down."

Uncle Seth shook his head and looked like he was counting in his head then he said "Hence forth you shall be known as Her Highness the Princess of Trouble." with a knightly air, but the expression on his face was different.

"Uncle Seth are you fluberstrated with me? I am sorry, I didn't mean for my best friend to get hurt. I just didn't think about taking him up on the roof when he is still a baby and all."

He looked toward the sky like someone was going to snatch him out of there, like he wanted them to. He took a deep breath and looked at me. "Ok, your highness, I am getting you a book for your birthday."

"A book? Really? What's the name of it?" I did like to read, I was a very good reader or so Mother said.

"That, my child, is up to you. You are going to write this book."

My heart fell, that just didn't sound like much fun. "But Uncle Seth, it's supposed to be a good present."

He smiled, "It will be. It will also, I hope, help to keep you out of trouble. You get into almost as much trouble as I do."

"Really? I do?" It was looking a bit better now.

"I want you to use the gift to write down everything you do every day. I want to know what you did at academy, I want to know what games you played, AND missy, I want to know everything else." And he looked at me like he knew I did things that could not be proven.

I shook my head, "HUH UH! I can't do that. What if someone found it? That is not a good idea Uncle Seth. You surprise me, you are smarter than that."

"This is your story, and only you will know what you write on the pages. Keep it hidden if you must but write it all down for two reasons. One so that one day you will have help remembering and two it will help to keep you from being bored."

"Ok Uncle Seth I will do it but I do not like it. I think it is not smart to right those things down. Better to just answer the questions you are asked."

"I write everything down. I want to remember and one day maybe someone else will want to know about me after I have left Nirn, so the books will be here."

"OOHH well that's different then, you didn't say that before." And I ran into the house yelling "Her Highness Princess of Trouble coming through, make way for the princess…." And I could hear Uncle Seth laughing.



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This post has been edited by Athynae: Feb 3 2012, 11:59 PM