Clarity is, by all definition, a lovely girl. With glossy black curls, her mother's green eyes, though in a softer shade, and a voice sweet and melodic, she was what Jane idolized and envied all through their childhood. Clarity is also a rather buxom young girl, which, Jane has surmised, is likely what got her into trouble later in life.
Clarity is generally a well-mannered woman, given to romance and sweeping emotions in certain situations. She's one of those dreamy-eyed girls that longs for love, and all the men knew it. When she was but ten years old she had men asking her father for her hand, an eye to her beauty and her immense dowry. However, her father dismissed them all.
When the family moved to Meadowood, Clarity was able to learn bardic mastery from the Silver Songstress herself, Sirrala. Singing and playing became her life. She was so caught up in it, that she had little time to pay attention to her doting little sister. She barely voiced opinion on Jane's chosen career. This grew worse when, one day when she was picking wildflowers behind her home, a green-cloaked stranger appeared and swept her off her feet. The man's name was Gareth Lindgren, a man Clarity knew her father would dislike because he was a wandering minstrel. She petitioned Jane to cover for her when she went to see him secretly. Jane hated Gareth the first moment he spoke to her, but she did as asked for her sister.
One day Clarity was caught with Gareth by her father. Eridon refused to let his daughter near the man again. The next day, Clarity vanished without a trace, without even saying goodbye to Jane. She blamed her for being caught. She and Gareth ran away together.
Clarity was so deeply caught up in her notion of love, being at the tender and impressionable age of fifteen, that she didn't notice Gareth's wandering eye. One morning she woke up in their room at a seedy inn to find Gareth gone and the debt unpaid. He'd taken what he wanted from her, and had moved on. Clarity stayed to work off the debt, and there she remained, knowing she could never return home. |
