05:Â A memory that your character wishes to erase
The flames seem to eataway at the walls, and they make Seren cower in her corner, wrap her armstightly around her lithe frame. Sheâs frightened, in a way in which she canât rememberever having been before. How can rock burn? It takes her a full minute ofpondering to realize that itâs not the rocks that burn â itâs the decorationson the wall, the tapestries, the paintings, the wooden appliques. Then, in hermind, Crysantheâs smiling face appears â for just a moment, before the imagecontorts, and the figure parts her lips in a soundless scream, and, all of asudden, Seren is up on her feet, because she needs to find her best friend. Shecanât let her alone in this blazing inferno.
When she rushes pastthe double doors (wooden, flaming, so hot that she feels her cheeks bitten bythe flames she passes by), she can hear the shouts of the soldiers that seem tohave swallowed the castle, but she doesnât stop. She runs, and runs, towardsthe teyrnâs apartments, hoping that there was where sheâd be able to findCrysanthe. But she isnât there, and, after searching all of the rooms, all shecan find is the bodies of Oriana and Oren â Crysantheâs sister-in-law and hernephew, stabbed to death.
She turns around, bilerising up in her throat, but she doesnât pause, doesnât allow herself to besick. She starts running again, aimlessly this time, until sheâs abruptly draggedto the halt by the sound of a womanâs scream, a voice so familiar to her thattears jerk out of her eyes before she can even see her motherâs face. But sheâstoo late. Much too late, and life is pouring out of Lanayaâs body quicker thansheâd ever be able to charm back in. Youfailed her, Seren. Like always.
08:Â Something that makes your character laugh
Many things â almost everything, really. Sheâs learned earlythat laughter can prevent people from asking questions, because, really, whoâsgoing to think that a child who laughs all the time could be sad, ortraumatized in any way? With Seren, laughter is almost as good as words,because sheâs got a different kind of laughter for everything â she can biteand heal and warm with it just as well as she can with spells. But she canâtcome through with it, not really, sheâs never been very good at being trueabout the things she doesnât want tolaugh about.