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Ember was born the day of a solar eclipse. The lands were dark and shadowed. Ember’s parents immediately feared she was a curse in the form of a cub, a curse that was coming to repay them for the bad deeds they had committed. Their fear was unmatched.
Do they dare abandon their offspring, though? Perhaps it will just add onto their bad deeds? Will the consequences pile up?
They were at a stalemate. They had little idea what to do with Ember, but they kept her regardless. However, they would fear her for every second they lived. All they could think of when they saw her, was that she was nothing but a bad omen sent to collect their lives as a pension for their past mistakes.
Ember grew up oblivious as to why her parents were terrified of her. Was her appearance haggard? Terrifying? She could never quite figure it out. She greatly lacked the nurturing she required as she grew up. Ember couldn’t help but feel borderline abandoned. She didn’t feel loved, she felt like an outcast.
It’s safe to say she was basically on her own when she was weaned. Her parents brought in kills from time to time, only letting her eat the scraps when they were finished. She might as well have been out in the wild fending for herself, it would make no difference. So, one night in her adolescence, she left. She ran away from her parents, and didn’t look back.
Along the way, Ember found another young lion around her age, a male. She expected nothing from him except for him to shy away from her in horror. But, he didn’t. He enjoyed her company, and would often go out of his way to talk to her. This gave Ember a sense of hope in herself, that maybe her parents were just paranoid, and there was really nothing to be afraid of.
Ember decided to look for a pride with her newfound confidence, stumbling across the accepting leadership of Soleil. She was welcomed in immediately, and made friends with the queen right off the bat. She found another lion,
Jupiter, that was born the day of a solar eclipse. The two instantly clicked, and became close friends.
