The Memories of Amberlyn Ledona Cephal

*sitting in the grass, her eyes gazing over as she begins to remember*

My first real memories are of when I was around 5. To me the world was huge for we lived inside a little cottage just outside of Stonegate in the forest. My father, Chadonel Cephal, was a strong and proud Minotaur but very kind and compassionate. His eyes always sparkling with a vibrance of life unperil to any I have known. My mother, Ledona Cephal, was kind and very loving. She never said a mean word and always had the most gentle of touch.

Time passed quickly for me, for all the playing and everything my father and I did. Then, on my tenth birthday, the worst thing that could ever happen to me happened... Playing like my father and I always did when he wasn't busy providing for us, he gave me my present. It was this shiny blue ball that let off a brilliant light. I was delighted at such a wondrous gift, I ran off right away throwing and chasing the ball. My father not far behind me making sure I didn't go to far. Then as I was running I heard this scream...I froze, my eyes wide for I knew it was my father. I quickly turned around to see him on the ground, laying there still and unmoving. I burst into tears as I ran to his side shaking him, yelling at him to wake up. Alas, he never did, my father Chadonel Cephal died that day on my tenth birthday.

My mother tried her best to make me happy after that. On my birthdays she would try and do the things my father did but I wanted no part of it. My birthdays could have never came again for all I cared. I didn't need or want to remember that day, but it haunted me for years. Was it my fault he died? Why couldn't I save him? I need to be strong for him, his princess was no longer. I had become cold and uncaring for a while even to my mother who did nothing wrong but try to love me. I was sixteen when she passed on, those six years wore her down so they say, but I know different. I know why she died. She died of a broken heart, she lasted as long as she did to take care of me and when she felt I old enough, she finally let go.

I stayed at the cabin a year after that, trying to adjust not having either of my parents in my life. It was hard, I was lonely and afraid. When I turned seventeen, I decided to venture into Stonegate. It was very exciting to finally come into the town where my father came so often. It was here I decided to become a warrior, I refuse to be weak, I was my fathers daughter and I would be strong. It wasn't long after arriving I met another Minotaur, a rather handsome gentleman named Tinder. We became fast friends and for a while we were a little more. Tinder and I ventured everywhere together, you seldom saw us apart. Then one day at the fountain, we ran into a couple more Minotaurs. Darc, a very kind and wonderful man, and Torvak . When I first saw Torvak, my heart leaped and flipped inside my chest, never before had I felt this way after just meeting someone. I truly did not know what to do, so for a while I did nothing. We saw each other in passing and waved hello but that was it. Until one day, oh I remember this so well, he asked me to go talk and have a drink with him. I quickly said yes, hopeing he didn't hear how happy I was that he asked. We sat there and talked, for hours and hours, I truly donut know how many had passed but I did know we talked through one sunset and one sunrise. It was that day I knew I had found my true love, the one to claim my heart. I never said this though until a year or so later, and to my suprise he felt the same about me. We plan to marry one day and to have children, but we are in no rush. We know our love is there forever and together we will make our own path into the stars.

*wakes suddenly, a tear falling from her cheek as her tale is so far complete*