[Who are you? How he wished he knew how to answer that for himself. He stands up slowly, having finished securing his sleeves over his wrists, but he knows Mithos probably saw what they covered. Had it been another Human who had seen them he would have been running by now, but Mithos wasn't. That other person was a half-breed just like him, and though he knows that this place probably didn't pose a threat like his home did, his heart wouldn't stop racing, knowing that back there he would have just risked his freedom.
It continues to beat rapidly as he raises his gaze to look at Mithos in the eye, noting in the back of his mind that he was taller than himself now. But that didn't intimidate him, only steel his resolve more. Drawing in breath, he begins.]
... My name is Aldreios, a son of the Neruyl Family with Iwanoki blood. In my Human life I was Aleos Sadres, a boy who was deemed too weak and was pushed around easily. Someone who had long ago given up on living a life of my own, under the command of a Human and those who shared his mindset who did not hesitate to berate me, because I sympathized with the non-Humans of my world, specifically those who shared my ancestry, even if I was not aware of that at the time.
It was only after I met the only other halfling like myself that I was able to begin to stand up for myself, and it was only just before arriving here that I was aware of the extent of my mixed blood, my role and treasured all the more that girl who was the only one who could understand what it means to be of mixed blood, to have broken wings and long for true freedom from the madness we share.
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It continues to beat rapidly as he raises his gaze to look at Mithos in the eye, noting in the back of his mind that he was taller than himself now. But that didn't intimidate him, only steel his resolve more. Drawing in breath, he begins.]
... My name is Aldreios, a son of the Neruyl Family with Iwanoki blood. In my Human life I was Aleos Sadres, a boy who was deemed too weak and was pushed around easily. Someone who had long ago given up on living a life of my own, under the command of a Human and those who shared his mindset who did not hesitate to berate me, because I sympathized with the non-Humans of my world, specifically those who shared my ancestry, even if I was not aware of that at the time.
It was only after I met the only other halfling like myself that I was able to begin to stand up for myself, and it was only just before arriving here that I was aware of the extent of my mixed blood, my role and treasured all the more that girl who was the only one who could understand what it means to be of mixed blood, to have broken wings and long for true freedom from the madness we share.