Jess it’ll be fun. I know it is a long time but you will find you love Winklewheats their academic program is the best in all of Aelinthaldaar. Her mother referred to their city as if it was still elven, she was always trying to get the young girl to embrace her heritage, but the excitement and sheer size of the city of splendors made that near impossible. The girl had thought of herself as a waterdavian as long as she could remember. She and her friends weren’t humans, hobbit or even orcs they were that special group of creatures who called this city, the greatest city in all of Faerun home, Waterdeep.
Plus you hate Evermeet and nine months of listening to you complain sweetheart will drive me and your father insane. And you know how stressed he is during his exams. Her mother continued as her father walked into the room, his voice broadcasting there was nothing she could do. Jessie had never wanted for much except more of her parent’s attention they were so very busy two scholars working to finish their mutual doctorates, her father a historian her mother a shipwright. They were always saying that they would spend more time together after they had graduated but of course soon they would be even busier with their careers
Jess it is your fault you can’t come along. You and your friends still have to pay for the damage you did to the Baileys roof with those fireworks you somehow found in the sewers. *his look, exceedingly disapproving yet still warm* So, your mother and I will go to Evermeet and you will go to boarding school.
None of my friends go to boarding school and that place is weird. *she whined plaintively*
It was true that Jessie’s friends didn’t go to boarding school those that even went to school anymore. At sixteen many had already found jobs or, apprenticeships’ or even more lucrative forms of employment. But she knew her cause was lost. It was strange that she would want to travel with them now after putting as much distance between them as she could for the last ten years she looked like a young woman just like her human friends yet inside she still felt the need to have the safety of her parents to fall back on. Or maybe she had a premonition of doom, a ship lost at sea, a voyage incomplete. They were right she was not allowed to leave until she paid the thousand gold her portion of the repairs to the roof would cost. Stealing the fireworks from the Fleetswake festival along with far too much wine. Her and her friends had become accomplished burglars (or so they thought) Stealing from every noble house in the neighborhood. It was exciting and she finally kissed a boy after one raid. They had been dared to use a rope to cross from Billy Robinsons house into the compound of some Trade house they made it just fine but once they got there a couple of guards showed up with dogs and walked the compound for almost an hour. So while they waited on the roof Billy gave her, her first kiss. It was sloppy and wet but terribly exciting. After a week she decided the kiss was great but poor Billy he didn’t cut it, she needed new horizons.
And so that is how in her sixteenth year Jessie Mune was sent boarding school at Winklewheat academy and her parents set sail for Evermeet
