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Avin’s mother was full Colondite (another country which is almost always at war with Vegada), and his father was full Vegadan. He was born in Vegada. The hatred for Colondites is mainly based on Vegadans’ distaste for the country, b/c they are so mean and war-like. (plus negative things like slavery etc. are legal there, and vagabonds from Vegada can make an underhanded iving in gross trades like that). The intense hatred happened after Colondite assassins murdered the king and queen a few years ago.

Avin

“Oh, me? I’m from Spire. And you?”

Spire. Nothing about this made sense, but Avin was getting used to it already. Spire was a name he was completely unfamiliar with.

“I’m from Vegada,” he answered quietly. A blank look crossed the boy’s face. “You haven’t heard of, it.” It was a statement instead of a question.

The boy shook his head so that his pink hair flopped around. Avin could tell by his bearing that he thought he was really something. Inwardly he rolled his eyes, but his face never changed.

“And your name is…?”

“Kit.” the boy answered, almost triumphantly. “Yours?”

“Avin Merrelsby.” It slipped off his tongue before he had thought. Introducing himself as “Avin, Duke of Westlyn” still felt stiff and unusable. In these past few minutes everything about him that was Avin, Duke of Westlyn had vanished, and he was just Avin Merrelsby once again. Invisible, unnoticed.

The boy couldn’t help but look back at the girl, still by herself in the corner. Alone and crying. She wanted to be alone, but Avin wished there was something he could do to help. he saw her half-turning to look at them, and looked quickly away, leaving Kit to do all the grinning and nodding. She didn’t need to find a stranger’s eyes looking at her, especially not his.

Kit seemed to grow suddenly uninterested in the conversation, and made a move to go to her, but as he moved toward her, a look of horror flashed across her face.

“So, Kit: what do you do in Spire?”Avin asked quickly, with more friendliness than he felt.

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Yeah, Kit, just tell her! Fascinating relationship. 🙂

Hope this was Kit-ish and Valencia-ish

Change anything, and take it where you will. 🙂