(Barbara Introduction) Chapter 1 - Mafia!; Blood and Games (Patreon)

“Heeey!”, beamed a waving female Praesegen with a long, blue braid. The first thing Virgo immediately noticed about her, aside from her tomboyish persona, was the rare colour of her skin. Most Praesegens tended to be some shade of bright green, but this one was the rare black type, and, not only that, but she was a woman. Her presence alone reminded the man of a younger Vivian, who would constantly go up to any black, female Praesegen and ask if they were ‘her mommy’. Recalling those memories, Virgo cringed at how the women would look at him afterwards, trying to reason with his young girl while they thought it was all some elaborate pickup line. After shaking his head in an attempt to get out of his own thoughts, he swiftly turned to face his daughter, assuming she might do it again, but she was barely paying attention to the situation at all. She may have glanced for a moment or two at the new player, but she also just as quickly glanced away and went back to fiddling with her uniform skirt. He let out a silent sigh, internally telling himself off for nearly panicking over nothing. She was almost an adult now, he had to remember, and she knew well that her mother wasn’t every black, female Praesegen she saw. Sometimes, he wished he could ask her if she still believed her mom would return at all, but she consistently refused to talk about things like that. Vivian was only really interested in her new fashion phase and learning to be an investigator like her father– nothing in between and nothing else.

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I've been very inspired to pick back up writing this story, as I feel I've done a bit more research into writing fantasy stories in general. I hope you all like this snippet I just wrote up for Barb's introduction <3 There's a lot more to come (hopefully, i've been very very busy)