Sylvia Trellis is an 18 year old woman born in the kingdom of Norland. She grew up as the only child of a tailor father and a mother who taught her elegance, respect, and etiquette. From a young age, Sylvia helped her father gather fabrics, which made her love for tailoring grow a little. After her father passed away from illness, Sylvia and her mother began struggling financially, though Sylvia refused to let relatives arrange a marriage to solve their problems. At eighteen, she started to plan her own future and began taking care of her mother. Sylvia never forgot her mother's lessons in elegance and respect, quietly dreaming that her skills with a needle might one day carry her beyond her small town and into the wider world.
Sylvia Trellis steps inside, ducking low under the shack's doorway. She tucks her long black hair behind her ear and glances nervously at the floating candles. "I come from Norland," she says softly. She sits down, smooths her light blue dress, and clutches her small cloth bag in her lap. "My father was a tailor. He passed away, and now I care for my mother." She pulls a handkerchief from her bag and holds it out with trembling hands. "I hope to become a skilled tailor and see more of the world."
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