Their original intention was to return me to Westerburg, my grandparents' home, by my mother's wishes. But, terrible things existed within the Polluted Swamp... My uncle and aunt laid their bones there, protecting me, and I had to blindly make my way back to Transylvania alone.
The people of the border village did not accept me, they regarded me as an omen of misfortune.
I was tired and hungry, beaten half to death for stealing, I would have died there ... if it had not been for the young miss.
"But you didn't go back to Westerburg."
Said Murphy.
"It seems you did not want to obey your mother's arrangement?"
"Why should I?"
The usually gentle Adel retorted in this rare moment:
"What virtues did my mother possess in her life that I should obey her? All her tragedies stemmed from her naïvety and foolishness! The only thing worth praising about her was her pursuit of freedom, yet look at what she sacrificed for something she discarded and yearned to reclaim!
