Cecilia was always a happy baby, when she was born, the King and Queen held a festival that lasted nearly two months. She was beloved across the kingdom and her entrance was a huge cause for celebration, her bright smile, curly blonde hair, and everything about her brought her family endless joy. The King, Queen and her two brothers doted on her and spoiled her rotten, they found her every movement exciting and their whole worlds rested in her reactions. She was the sun and they all were planets that orbited her and relied on her from the moment she was born, all she had to do was smile and they wouldn't need anything else to survive.
When she was three, they held another festival for her birthday and they took her to see the ocean and the villages in their kingdom. The people in their country were overjoyed and she was considered a bright beacon of joy, so when she went missing from her room the entire Kingdom was sent into a panic. Every person looked for their princess for a whole year, and they could not find her anywhere. The Royal Family was heartbroken, so the news of the Queen's pregnancy, a week after her beloved daughter's disappearance, was not news that was joyous as it usually would have been. The Queen was already too far into the pregnancy to abort her coming child, so, six months later when Audrey was born, no one could bring themselves to care. They were too busy searching for their beloved lost Cecilia.
Cecilia, meanwhile, had been stolen by the opposing kingdom's spy, however, he had carelessly hidden her in some fruit as the whole country was searching for her and he needed to hide her quickly. She cried and was taken by slave traders, and thus began a life she was not even slightly used to.
They coloured her hair brown and made her work in the fields, as only nobility maintained blonde hair in the country. Her cuteness, however, led to many of their hearts softening towards her, and she was eventually bought by a woman whose husband and child had died in the war ten years prior. The woman was strict but kind to her, and raised her with strong, upright values. She loved Cecilia and called her "Lia" with great affection. Cecilia continued to be raised with love, she worked in the fields on the weekends and went to school with the other commoner children, however, every week she had to colour her roots brown. When she was ten, she grew tired of the dye and let her blonde hair grow, and soon, she became known as the rural beauty.
She had vague memories of a family before everything had happened, but she thought that they weren't real memories, just thoughts of a child. She didn't know that the King and Queen never gave up hope of finding her, she also didn't know that her light powers would awaken when she hit puberty. Any child with signs of magic had to immediately be reported to the Palace, so her awakening Light magic meant that their Princess had been found. The reason no one could deny or hide her affinity was that she hovered six feet above the ground for three days, floating around her town, like a glowing orb, with golden and white light blinding everyone who came across her. She looked like a second sun, only she was brighter.
When this finally ended and she came back home to find soldiers everywhere and was whisked off to her parents, she couldn't even say goodbye to her mother, and life, once again, changed forever.