Wester
Legacy Name: Wester

Trails
I can feel you waiting for me as the sun retreats to the hills and I, beneath the blanket of a burning sky, wrap myself within. Embraced by dead leaves as the rain leaves trails of black down my face, I creep through the twilight to that hidden place beyond the lonely. I'll meet you tonight in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found. I can feel you dreaming of me and the time when our steps are retraced and I creep through the twilight to that hidden place, beyond the lonely, I'll meet you. Beneath a dream, lost in a dream tonight. Smile.
- Wester by AFI

Whispers
My mother loved working in her garden, planting, nursing sprouts, mint leaves, all sorts of things. I enjoyed going out and helping her when I was younger, but my father, being a military man, didn't like seeing me doing what he thought of as “women's work” so in order to make a man out of me, he sent me to boarding school when I was six. It was a different environment there, very strict, disciplining the students for the slightest infractions. I felt detached from everything. I began taking Aikido class since many of the boys were enrolled in various dojos that sponsored the school. At first I detested being there, I only wanted to stay outside and see the world around me. I felt out-of-place, as though I didn't belong where I was, but slowly I began to realize that I was progressing pretty well in the class after 4 years. My Sensei took notice and began to give extra lessons to his top 3 students. By the time I hit 15, I was well passed being a Shodan (1st degree black belt), however Sensei wouldn't explain why he'd passed on giving me the higher degrees. I wasn't the type back then that would hold some resentment over that, in fact, I didn't mind staying as a 1st degree, I was mostly trying to understand my dreams.

I started having vivid dreams of a place I'd never seen before. A large mansion with a large property of land. It wasn't much until I started dreaming of her. It was of a different time, the clothing was different, no electronics, horses, carriages, it was surreal and yet I felt more comfortable in those dreams then I did in the real world. Some nights I'd see myself as a gardener. I'd be tending the fields...

After completing my schooling I joined the Military academy and enrolled into the Navy. I trained day in and day out and after being in the field for years I was injured on the leg, left with a permanent limp. I got my discharge papers at 28, and did odd jobs here and there until I was approached by Riese's dad and hired as her bodyguard. Keeping it short, I've been looking out for her for about 5 years now. She lost her father the first year I started working for her and met Vita.

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Dreams
I woke in a cold sweat. It was such a vivid dream that I had to check if my place was a mess and get some water. I never had anything like it. I felt aches where I shouldn't and just thinking about it gave me chills. It was that same woman again, but this time it was different. She was terrified. The fear in her eyes as she looked at me said everything...

I was laying on the floor just outside the doorway to a room. I felt a sharp pain on my right leg and when I reached down my hand came away with blood, I knew I'd been shot. I leaned my head back and felt this stabbing pain on my back. I could barely make out the room behind me, but it had been ransacked. Everything was on the floor or flipped over and as I looked back down towards the end of the hallway I saw her standing there. She was in a state of shock, hands over her mouth, tears down her face looking helpless. I tried getting up to comfort her, regardless of the pain I was in, but the pain was too much and I fell back. I made the injury on my back worse and felt something being pushed in making me cry out. That's when she snapped out of it and rushed to my side. She kneel down, taking off her scarf and placing it on my leg. I bit my lip, trying to hold back the pain. I looked at her as she told me, “Don't move, please don't move I'll get help. Please just stay still I need get you help.” I know she meant well, but there was nothing she could do for me. I felt the darkness creeping up on me as she stood up to go back where she came from. I saw her briefly turn when footsteps came rushing towards up.

I tried, I really tried to tell her to get away from me, but my voice wouldn't let me. I don't know if she heard me tell her “I Love You.”