"We were all sick. There was..an epidemic, I suppose. Eleanore, my parents and I- we were all sick, but Eleanore and I got better. I suppose our parents knew that they weren't going to get better, so they sent us to some family in a nearby town. But the illness had gone through there, too, and they had already passed away." Abby lifted her shoulder in a shrug, shifting slightly in her seat. "We didn't have anywhere to go, so we started toward Greenville- I thought I'd be able to find work. I'd be a maid, or- well, I didn't really know what. I just knew that I had to take care of my sister. But things happened, and..Ellie and I were separated- she was found by the Ayorthian emissary, and I- well, I knocked on the wrong door."
Her blush deepened at Rena's words, and she couldn't help her faint smile. "I suppose it was," she admitted. "Even still- I wish I hadn't lost ten years."