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Silva
Location Southern Weyr
Position Apprentice
Craft Dolphincraft
Birthplace Waimyn's Island
Played By Ashleigh Cummings
Player yranth

Description

Silva isn't particularly tall - or particularly short - or particularly anything. Her build is average, and she's certainly not overweight, but not thin either. She looks old enough to be counted a woman, but probably has a little more growing to do. Mid-brown hair is straight, with a hint of a wave, and cut just below her chin. Brown eyes, a small nose and pale lips sit in a squarish face with cheeks that are rounded, perhaps childishly so, making her seem at first glance younger than her actual age. She's fair-complexioned; at present she's lightly tanned with a smattering of freckles.


Common Knowledge

One of the women who arrived on the Merry Sherry after the raid on Waimyn's island.


Relationships

Both parents are deceased, as is her 'husband'. She's not really dangerous to know, though: there are a lot of half-siblings around. An awful lot.


History

Silva was born on Waimyn's island and had never left it until the Weyr raided it. Her mother died in childbirth a few turns ago: she was one of Waimyn's women, and Silva's grown up knowing that she's probably the Captain's daughter. Sawra had several miscarriages after Silva, which caused Waimyn to lose interest in someone who had only given him one child, and a daughter at that. The child she died trying to birth may not have been his, but she always insisted that Silva was, and stressed to Silva that she should say so.

On the island, Silva had essentially no education outside the strictly practical, though she is practical, and a survivor. She didn't learn to read. Her father had little interest in her: she clearly wasn't going to be a fighter, and even Waimyn wouldn't add his own daughters to his harem, so she wasn't much use to him. Instead, she was given to one of the men when she was fifteen - about a turn before the raid. Her 'husband' was quite a bit older, and not unkind, but it wasn't much of a relationship, especially as he left her behind when he was sent to the land camp. He was killed in the raid on the land camp, and she's not quite sure why everyone seems to think she must be distressed by that.
She's not been given to anyone else, though she's been with one or two of her own volition, which is how she came to be wondering if she might be pregnant at the time of the island raid. She therefore went back to the Weyr on the Merry Sherry, her first sea trip of any length. If she'd understood why the pregnant women had to go on the ship, she'd have kept quiet, especially after she discovered that she is no sailor! In fact, her luck was in: it has turned out that she's not expecting. She had no choice in going to the Weyr, and anyway couldn't see any better alternative. Enquiries when she arrived cleared her of any guilt relating to the pirates' activities - she was never a fighter. Now she's here, it's overwhelming. Everything is very, very new, and there are far too many people, and there's far too much that she doesn't know.


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