Pauline Castella knew she was destined for great things. Ever since she was a child she had an aptitude for elemental magic rarely seen in the world. She had been flinging flames from her fingertips since she was 4 years old, and had only continued to become more powerful and skilled with time.
This devotion to spellcraft above all else meant that she never really fit in with others that well. She felt that playing with the other kids was a waste of time that could be spent developing her talents, leading them to alienate her in turn. And with adults she fared little better. She saw no hesitation in using her gifts to contribute to her home city of Port Pineglade, but her justified pride in her abilities led to all the older folks other than her parents to view her as an arrogant, upstart brat; even if her solutions were almost always better than they could have achieved otherwise. As such, Pauline spent most of her free time when not on errands studying in her room, using all of her pocket money to acquire books and materials for spell research.
Though her parents had hoped she would get out of the house and her self-made laboratory more, they also saw potential with her talents and wanted to benefit from them, so they let her do as she pleased. Life continued in this humdrum way for many years. Until one day, when Pauline was 14…
It began like any other day. Pauline used her magic to perform some errands for the town, took dinner with her parents, and then sequestered herself in her study for the evening. She had acquired a new book to study, and had taken to reading it in bed in her pajamas, falling asleep as she reached the end.
However, on this night, she was awoken by a sudden crashing sound and her door flying open! Startled, she sat up in her bed and turned to see what had busted in. In the dim, starry light through her study’s window, she could barely make out a bestial shape.
“Wha-?” She uttered groggily as the shape snapped at her, fangs glinting in the starlight.
With a shriek, Pauline threw herself off her bed, narrowly avoiding the beast’s attack! As the beast tore into her bedding, her heart hammered in her chest. Like everyone, she had known that monsters and evil forces were on the rise, but she never expected them to ambush her in the middle of the night. The fear was extra-heightened as she was only wearing her pajamas at the time, which was rather light. More specifically, she was currently wearing-
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