Talk:EESM Ideas/@comment-4423292-20140709225728/@comment-4423292-20140927065558

Ayaulym's family were blood-supremacists, dangerous and proud. Her parents had killed muggle-borns before.

But they were also a close-knit family. Ayaulym herself is the fourth of Inkar and Aruzhan's eight children.

Ayaulym's life was simple, happy, and full. Her and her siblings were all homeschooled.

She, along with all her other siblings, were jealous of the eldest two, the beautiful, the skilled and regal: Erasyl and Aruzhan. But they loved them too, and were more proud of them than they could say.

The next eldest was her brother, Ruslan. He was strong and mischievous and almost always accompanied by their little brother Nurasyl. Their family would joke that Nurasyl was Ruslan's little protégé.

In age, it went Erasyl, Aruzhan, Ruslan, then Ayaulym. Then Saltanat, her slightly-younger sister and very best friend. They were born within a year of each other, and were a pair in life.

After Saltanat was Nurasyl, then Sezim, and Arman.

And then was the day that the Ministry came to arrest her parents. Fighting broke out. It was chaos. Some things about that day Ayaulym can't remember at all, and some things are etched on the inside of her eyelids. She remembers Sezim, six years old, wearing her princess dress-up costume, dead in the yard. Her brother Erasyl, her nearly perfect elder brother, being hit by the spell that ended his life. He was engaged at the time. She remembers gripping Saltanat's hand so hard it cut off her circulation, and Saltanat still manged to pull her hand from Ayaulym's grip and run.

Ayaulym, as far as she knows, is the only one who survived. She went west, heading for the school she had once gotten an acceptance letter from. At the time it had been written off, because she was to be homeschooled with her siblings. But now Ayaulym went there, hiding among her classmates, keeping the pain locked deep in her chest, not speaking any more than she had too.