The Dark Paladin of Chaos
The warm rays of Spira made her feel like she wanted to just hop on a lamp post and happily stretch out. The weather on Eve was a perfect mimic of real life and felt as real as any, but there was no replacement for the very feel of the air you got when you visited places that held any sort of meaning to you.
Normally not one to take time off for personal pleasures, Madalena had come to this planet of rich people's vacations with a purpose. She knew that nearly two years ago, her sister had come here and by accident uncovered a Tome of Blood. Just touching that thing had made her become the Blood Hound, and it had been hidden at their aunt's mansion, Asteria deWinter . Asteria had no idea that she even possessed it.
Madalena had enough time to mull it over in her heads for months now, especially during her recovery phase after being the OPA's prisoner of war. And in her head, she had decided that there had to be more. She and her sister were happy right now, and they would be even happier in a few years, when the time came to return to Endelaan. But there were so many large question marks both women had. And with so much free time on her hands, Madalena had decided to do something to least try to find some answers.
It was true that both she and Scherezade held memories inside their heads. Memories that did not belong to them, that had first been branded on Scherezade's mind when she came out of the pebble, and then into Madalena when Scherezade thought she was creating her. But those memories had been chosen by neither of them – it had been their grandmother, Shery deWinter that had decided what to give. And she had not given everything.
Knowing that their grandmother was at war with their mother, Nessarose deWinter , and both were fighting it out on an alternate dimension, there wasn't really going to be a good time to just go and ask one of them. So it was left to Scherezade and Madalena to uncover pieces of their family.
Spira had been one of the planets that the deWinters had once called home. It was there that their grandmother and grandfather had lived happily together for over two decades, bringing five children along for the ride. The memories inside Madalena's head knew that these were happy memories, of a father, a mother, and their kids, and that there had been true love reigning there.
That mansion was no more, and on its place resided now her aunt's mansion and brothel branch. That hadn't kept the Tome of Blood from popping up. Perhaps, if Madalena went there, another thing would pop up.
But she had no intention of going to her Aunt's place. Not yet, at least. Unannounced, and unintroduced, it was going to be too much to bear the entire need of hey, I'm your niece from another dimension, embrace me as family and kin. Not from her end, anyway. Still she sent Asteria deWinter a message to let her know she was there. If her aunt would invite her… Madalena hoped it would be a good meeting. She knew her aunt loved her mother more than anything else, but it had still been centuries. She didn't know what changed, and what hadn't.
Madalena, dressed in style as ever, opened the doors to the brothel's lobby, and walked in.