#savri

Daily Drawing Day 100

Savri was born in a different realm, in a kingdom called Illadel. Everyone within the realm is a shapeshifter and their non-animal form retains animal-like features. Savri, for example, still has wings in her non-animal form, her eyes are rounder than the average human’s, and her nose is very beak-like. There is a hierarchy among the shapeshifters, with certain types being treated better than others. Bird of prey and apex predator shifters are at the top of the hierarchy.

Illadel had been at war with a neighboring kingdom since before Savri was born, and by the time Savri reached young adulthood, all able-bodied people were expected to join the military and the war effort. Savri came from a well-known and accomplished military family, but she was far more dedicated to scholarly pursuits. Due to her family’s close connection to the royal family, she was able to become a scholar and researcher for the royal family, though she was still required to do a few years of military training.

Savri was assigned certain topics to research for the crown, mostly things that would help the war effort, but she would often stay up late, sneaking into archive rooms and restricted areas to pursue her own interests. In doing so, she stumbled upon information about the war, the royal family, and their war crimes that she definitely wasn’t supposed to know. She also found information on travel between realms and many other secrets that the crown was keeping from its subjects. Though she knew she would be killed if anyone discovered what she was researching, she kept at it, unable to resist pursuing and unraveling the mysteries. In her eyes, it was a matter of when she’d be discovered, not if, but she kept at it. In preparation, she started practicing traveling between realms so she would have a way to escape, while she also continued to dig into the secrets of the crown.

Savri didn’t realize this, but in practicing inter-realm travel, she was learning more about it than anyone else in the realm had so far. Before long, she was unknowingly the leading expert on inter-realm travel. The last person to pursue inter-realm travel had been alive when the war started, and he died fighting in the war. He had barely practiced inter-realm travel, fearing negative consequences. But, Savri was young and unconcerned about possible injury or death, and because of that, she made a lot of progress.

The son of her parents’ friends, Rofi (a hawk-shapeshifter), suspected Savri was getting into things she shouldn’t and started following Savri, trying to figure out what she was up to. His motivation was less out of loyalty to his kingdom, and more out of a vendetta against Savri, as she’d rejected his advances. Fortunately, he didn’t discover her more treasonous research, but he did find out about her inter-realm travel and reported it. A day later, Savri’s home was raided, as the crown had sent agents to commandeer any and all of her research. Savri was smart enough to hide her research elsewhere, but that didn’t prevent her from being imprisoned and questioned. For four months, she was routinely interrogated about her research, but she refused to say anything. She wasn’t sure how much they already knew, and she didn’t want to reveal anything. Nothing they did got her to talk.

After four months, Savri was allowed her first visitor, her sister. Her family effectively disowned her, as they believed she’d committed treason. As they were proud and deeply loyal to the royal family, treason was a deep betrayal. Her sister, Serale, was the only one to give Savri a chance to explain herself. Though it broke her heart to suspect Serale of only speaking to her to find out information for the crown, Savri couldn’t trust anyone. Everything she told Serale was vague, but Serale trusted her, refusing to believe Savri had committed treason like people said she did. Serale continued to visit her over the next year.

During one of their visits, Serale snuck a tiny knife to Savri. The next time her interrogators entered her cell, Savri used the knife to fight her way out. With the help of her military training and a lot of luck, she escaped the prison. She hid for three days, staying in her owl form. Then, she retrieved her research, the little money that she had, and as many of her belongings as she could hold and escaped into a different realm, leaving Illadel behind.

For a few weeks, Savri travelled from realm to realm, before she ended up at the Boarding House, where she settled, as it was the safest and most comfortable place she’d been to so far.

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