Nightcry was
born to a recognized couple over 700 years ago and held
the name of Greenbranch. She and her older brother Fox never
really got along, as she felt the holt favored him and paid
little attention to her. Growing up with her brother became
more of a contest.
The tension between
her and her brother increased until one day when they both
returned from a hunt. She had been successful, but her brother
had not, and Greenbranch was pleased. However, though she
was the one who brought home the kill her brother stole
the glory of the night by saving one of the cublings from
a giant snake. Her contribution to the hunt had been forgotten.
Upset, she wandered
into the forest, not wanting to interrupt the festivities.
But she could not contain her rage and screamed loud and
long into the night. The elves, thinking it was a wounded
animal they heard, headed into the forest to look to see
if they could find what was making such a racket. Plainswalker,
the chieftess at the time, was the one who found Greenbranch
and renamed her Nightcry.
After this event,
Nightcry learned not to keep the things that were bothering
her inside and became a much more outspoken--and a much
happier--elf. The relationship between Nightcry and her
brother also greatly improved.
When Wandering
Leaf, a stranger, ventured into Stormrise, Nightcry found
herself immediately taken with him. Given time, she persuaded
him to get closer to her, and a relationship ensued. Eventually,
during a time when she and her lovemate stayed behind at
the New Green Hurst to help watch over Tremble's new wolf
litter, the pair became inseparable. They became lifemates
and voluntarily exhanged soulnames.
However, to Nightcry's
shock, the relationship she was to have with her new lifemate
didn't last. When Wandering Leaf went with Wildlight and
a group of others to lay siege on the den of the Shadow
Beasts, Wandering Leaf went missing, without a trace. Although
she stretched both sending and magical abilities to their
limit, she could find no trace of him. Her entire world
was crushed, and it quickly became clear that without her
lifemate, the elder would soon die from grief.
Thankfully, Wandering
Leaf, injured and stranded away from the hurst, managed
to contact Nightcry for help before he froze to death in
the snow. She has tried not to fuss over him as he slowly
recovers, but has secretly taken to using her magic to periodically
check on him when the two are apart.
Although Nightcry
seems to have conquered the dark and unidentifiable depression
that suddenly came upon her even after her lifemate's retrieval,
there is still something that occasionally nags
at the back of her mind. For the most part, she has ignored
it, and it hasn't manifested itself in a powerful way as
of yet.
