User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/Stolen Tears/@comment-26879391-20160103230747/@comment-7662967-20160104035739

No, as a child, she is relatively innocent, adventurous, and all in all happy. She will grow to be very bitter, very cold, very hateful toward herself and short-tempered. But she also is forced to see something no child should see .. and she knows it's partly her fault, which is the cruelest blow.

Well .. I'll go back and look at that. Mostly it was because she didn't have a lot of time to think about it, because she was effected later on when her father whipped them. But I'll see if I can change a bit there .. hmm.

Ehhh .. she will become far darker for awhile as her innocence and joy is stolen, and will be forced to try and find that child again later on. Which isn't easy .. nothing about her life is easy.

Aww yes .. the relationship between her and Conva is beautiful .. and it makes what I must do ten times harder ... (ok, can I bawl for a moment? *sobs for 60 seconds* Ok .. *sniff* I'm good now ..)

Yea .. they .. well .. they used to get along well, at least. Xzaris is coming to terms with everything right now, he still cares about Romsca .. he's just spending some time alone. He does that when shocked/upset. But he will come back to his normal cheerful .. and cheering .. self after a bit. Likely in the next pov ..

She is .. wiser. She's seen many an age, and .. let's face it, it probably took her several hundred years to get her temper in remission. Cause it's Sayna ... :P

He will hopefully get better ;) To answer your question on his age .. he's probably fourteen or fifteen right now, like Rasconza. So he should be 22 in book 2.

Oh .. we'll see more of them all (except maybe Matti, he'll probably get left at Redwall next time .. simply to save him from Sayna's troubles with too many characters ..)

Umm .. Marine's not dead. Yet .. he's wounded, but Coral is caring for him in the brig .. Aqua's .. *sniff* .. dead though. Oh yes .. I'm not through with her yet. There's much more for her to accomplish in this story ;)

Nope. In fact .. he's not gonna get them back .. :( <_<

Yes .. I'm somewhat reserved about them, but I'm finding I like them a lot. For now, at least :)

Oh .. Kia. Kia's a tough, bitter person .. she has reasons all her own. She is a jerk, she does hate her son, yes, at this point. But she .. has had a very rough life, trust me. Xzaris's father never married her, in fact I think he was married to somebeast else .. and so she's a bit like Aisha. Her tavern's only barely making a go of it and she doesn't want to provide for this son she never wanted .. which is why she basically sold him to Conva when she got the chance.

She may change later, and all I'm going to say is it will be very awkward for both her and Xzaris.

Oh yes, I .. think I put that in there. She's a direct descent of theirs .. doesn't Waterlily say that at some point? IDK. Anyways.

I'm glad you're liking it, all in all, so far ;)