Thread:Skyebreeze/@comment-24217012-20140530170106/@comment-8014223-20141231180419

Fran: Sure, Val and Alex. Well, I was born two days before Symphony. I didn't go a regular school, my father homeschooled me.

North: (interrupts) Why didn't go to school?

Everyone: North!

North: Sorry...

Fran: That's okay. My family couldn't afford the tuition and my dad was a former teacher, so he could teach me at home. Other kids my age made fun of me because of that.

Jack: Wait, because of the fact that you were homeschooled?

Fran: Yes. In that society, that wasn't considered normal. When I was four, after my lessons with my dad, Nikita would take me to Symphony's house and there we met and became friends immediately.

Xavier: That fast?

Fran: Yeah, your older sister was considered an eccentric in the town and I was strange for not going to a real school, but doing school at home. We were both inseparable and didn't let anyone get the better of us. We would pretend to be in another world and we would stargaze on the roof of one of our houses.

Jack: Those sounded like fun.

Fran: Oh, they were. I was able to go to the music school since your performances pay off that school's tuition. There, I played the harp, while Symph would play on the piano or the flute. After Symphony and the family moved from the town, because their family business was destroyed and no longer had money to stay in the house, I start writing letters to Symph in order to stay in contact with her via stardust.

Nikita: Her parents, Clara and Fred, had financial problems as well. They were in debt to the town's only moneylender and sold their home to pay it off and moved in with me and my late husband, Cedric. My son Eli, Fran's uncle, helped some by moving their remaining possessions into the house, but afterwards, never wanted to anything with the family again.

Fran: I eventually became apprentice to a healer and learned various healing techniques and potion making. I also took up archery and was considered the best in the region.