"Yes I think it's safe to say,
I feel good about the sins,
That I inflict on my own skin.
I pay money to cut and burn,
Pictures like the lessons that I need to learn.
I see faces on the ceiling.
I see them move, I hear them singing.
I lay back in here by myself,
I think about the time that I've spent in hell.
When I saw my brother below me,
I remember the words he said;
'When you dream you hit bottom,
Chances are good you're gonna wake up dead.'
I'll be singing in the rain when the bad dreams come,
And it all goes wrong again."
- When it all goes wrong again; Everclear.
Iha was unfortunate, as were many in the territory surrounding Lacus Mortis. She was born with a deformity of her eyes, causing her to hide them. Even Queen Troya, for whom Iha worked, and was very close to, knew not what lay below Iha's bandages. Though recently, she was prompted to show them to Tristan, whom she cares for rather deeply. But to others, all that was known is that Iha was blind.
In addition, Iha had terrible asthma, and could not do much in the way of physical labor without winding up unable to breathe. Stress had the same effect.
Luckily, Iha was keeping happy, through rather.. macabre means. She collected all sorts of grim and ghastly things, things she liked to touch. She is even known to carry around the skull of a baby dragon, her favorite momento, or a dead bird, with a string through it's head, by way of the eyes.
As for her fellow Lunaris, she cares very little, except for those close to her, Tristan and Troya specifically. When a threat is posed to either of them, she will seek a way to change it, even if it is not entirely fair to others. For example, when Fallon was a threat to Troya due to his connection to the resistance, Iha reported him to Tsao under the condition that no others would be held at fault. She did this knowing full well that it would be painful for Troya, and that the others might distrust her more. But so deep is her loyalty that she took those risks.
And they did not turn on her. They helped her through her choice. And Tristan, whom she had liked for quite some time, grew closer to her to help cheer her. This would remain. Fallon returned, but would not rebuild his friendship with Iha.
As Troya's children grew, so would Iha's relationship with Tristan. Jilly had been driven away, had fled. Tristan was regaining himself, and Iha was doing her very best to help. And all she asked was that she could stay close to him, touch him, hear his heartbeat. The heartbeat that made her own race.
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