When I think back to it, there are so many factors that attracted me to Laelia as both a character and a person. Her biography was the starting point, grabbing my love for long lost daughters with a fist because the simple fact that she was the long lost daughter of a sort of royalty. Her long lost daughter status was not the only poignant thing about her to me, however. Her sheer intelligence was one factor, stemming from many teachings, both intended and unintended, by her mother and her surrounding environment. A second, was how determined she was to find her father, even when the world would have seem so empty without her mother by her side. She would do literally anything to get to where she believes she needs to be to find her place in …show more content…
If she had been alone to face the world, loneliness would have become an inherent part of her being; and her mother saved her from such a fate. Her mother, selfish and self-preserving, stopped moving, stopped chasing, stopped everything she had ever done up to this point in order to raise the child growing in her stomach. Her mother, still selfish and self-preserving, selfishly took from the world what she could so her daughter could be in possession of it. Her mother taught her everything she knew, but not to make her like herself --to make her a better version. Their time together was that of best friends, where fun reigned in their home when it was only the two of them and formality was forgotten. However, when it came down to it, their home was a well-balanced unicycle on a tightrope between fun and responsibility, although neither were revolted by either option presented in front of …show more content…
Her most successful way of helping Laelia to understand and to grow as a person was by influence. The young, white-haired girl looked at the girl with wide eyes that absorbed what she saw like a sponge took to water. And what she saw was her mother. Her mother was an observant being, and it showed in the way she interacted with her surroundings and it influenced her daughter to do the same. It was from an early start that Laelia started to notice those walking past her, when her mother came to public places, who leaned into each other as they passed them, whispering secret things and glancing in the way of the white-haired girl. It wasn’t that she was infamous around the Lakelands for her Norta blood, but that did not mean people did not know or suspect of her…