Desi - Secret Child 2-2 (Remembering)

What happened to this idyllic blossoming love between my parents in this kingdom in the clouds? Without going into the long story, the Inca happened - Huayna Capac. The people resisted his overtures to be subsumed by the Empire, and it only served to anger him further. My mother had dreamed a dream he would come and take her away with him. So, she arises and goes to her assistant Nali. She gives me to her and tells her to hide in this cave where Julian will come if she's not there. Of course, she wasn't when he returned. He did find Nali and me, and he took us to Eduardo's fortress down-river.

I spent several years there with Felicita and Paloma - the mothers of Eli and Rita. All I will say is that with Rita, the fruit didn't fall far from the tree. My brother Silvio was a fool to love Paloma above Felicita. They were both Were-Hags...jaguars. Of course I wasn't going to be like them. I couldn't be a Vampire though. I had to be the Wolf that is the other half of me. I complained of it to Ezza after Eduardo passed on. So, Ezza being the reasonable one, sent me down to live with him and Aurora and Raphael and them. I could just be myself there. That's where I stayed, and so of course I began to help them with the cataloguing of the plants and insects there and here on Fiera.

I can't complain really. I had like three fathers and mothers and I know my father mourned my mother's loss for most of my childhood. It's just that...it's not the childhood I would have preferred to have. I could have learned so much from my mother. Instead, I grow up with Were-Hags and Wolves. Never a Vampire to truly mentor me. But, perhaps that is not a problem now?