Missing Necklace

Kyliska’s head was pounding yet again. Another night of fighting the Alliance and another night of heavy drinking afterwards. That Hauk was a bad influence on her! She never used to drink this much! She sighed as she tried to stop the pounding in her head. She performed a small healing spell and that seemed to help for the most part. Kyliska didn’t know what was wrong with her. She was starting to feel new and different emotions that she hadn’t felt in quite some time. It was disturbing her because these emotions made her feel vulnerable, and she hated that with a passion.

Maybe she should stop drinking so much, it lowered her inhibitions too much and it brought all the emotions she was trying to hide to the surface. She says things she doesn’t mean to say, and acts in ways she knows she shouldn’t. Kyliska should be thinking of more important things such as her Mother’s necklace and why the Alliance had wanted it so badly. Her mind had strayed and she had to set back on track. Unconsciously Kyliska felt for the familiar necklace that she always wore around her neck. With sudden horror she realized that it was gone! She started to hyperventilate. She quickly searched her room for it. It must have fallen off she thought to herself.

Kyliska could not breathe. She had to find the necklace. She was having such a hard time breathing that she fell to the floor gasping for breath. She tried to calm herself down and take deep breaths so she could try to think more clearly. Then a thought ran through her mind. What if the Alliance had stolen her necklace during their battles over the past few days? Kyliska had spent most of the days sleeping because of her drinking, and then she would go into battle at night again. She didn’t even remember the last time that she had felt for the necklace! This was almost too much to bear.

She didn’t want her mother’s death to be in vain. She needed to find it. She briefly wondered if it was the gnome mage Jazari that had stolen it from her. She had fought him in South Shore earlier this evening and he was claiming to want peace and begged her and her friends to leave the town. Kyliska wasn’t sure if she should at first but then decided to retreat. Could the gnome have stolen her necklace during that time? One of the many times that she was chasing him trying to kill him? She shook her head. The headache had suddenly come back, and with more force.

Kyliska started to cry. She didn’t know what else to do. It was like her heart was breaking all over again. Like her mother was dying again in front of her. This can’t be happening. Not again. A specific memory came back to Kyliska then.

She was with her mother again. Kyliska smiled slightly and remembered how beautiful her mother was. She had inherited her long blonde hair from her. Her mother had shown Kyliska her necklace.

“Kyli, dear. This necklace is very special.” She said. “I never take it off. One day I will give this to you and it will be your burden to bear.”

“I do not understand Mother.” Kyliska started. “What is so special about a necklace and why is it a burden?”

“Oh Kyli, I cannot tell you that right now.” She insisted. “You just have to trust me. No one can have this except the Sin’Dorei.” Then the necklace made some sort of strange sound. Her mother quickly got up and hurried away. Kyliska yelled for her mother but she kept going. Kyliska followed her mother but suddenly she turned around and was thrown back. Kyliska looked at her mother in horror. The necklace was glowing and it was the necklace that had thrown her away from her mother. Kyliska was confused but got up and walked as far away from her mother as she could.

Kyliska was back in the present day. She had almost forgotten about that time. She was still confused as to why the necklace did that to her. Why was she allowed to wear the necklace after her mother had died then? Was it a family heirloom that she was allowed to wear but only after her mother had died? Still so many questions left unanswered, and now to top it all off the necklace was missing!

Kyliska didn’t even know where to start looking. She knew she should ask her friends for help in searching for it, but she felt so foolish to have lost it in the first place. She reminded herself that she might not have lost it and that it could have been stolen by the Alliance. It was them after all that had killed her mother and tried to take it. That would make the most logical sense that they did take it. Kyliska decided she was going to have a drink or two to get rid of the nasty headache and then she would figure out how to find the necklace. Maybe she would run into Hauk there and he could help her come up with a plan. She also knew that Biara had hung out in the bar the night before so she might be there as well.