Velvet
Winter

Some stories are too tragic to be told, some stories must be heard - regardless of the cost of telling them, and some stories are simply best left unspoken.
This is not one of those stories. Willow Granger lived a quiet life in a trailer, on a farm with her family, near Hastings. In 2002, the farm was attacked by a pack of feral wights; but Willow was saved by a masked vigilante - a heroic swashbuckler who, unfortunately, was too late to save her family from the slaughter.
The Vigilante didn't know what to do with the girl, so he put her in a kennel in his haven beneath the Asylum nightclub, where he cared for her like a pet until his Sire found out and told him to get rid of her. Well, she'd been kept in captivity for years, and everyone knows if you release 'em back into the wild after that, they don't have the skills to survive on their own, and they're just gonna get killed. So he embraced the girl first, and delivered her to the Velvet Children, standing in front of their Demesne and holding the girl by her neck.
"I made this for you," he said, and fucked off back to the Asylum. And that's how Willow Granger became Velvet Winter - newest of the Velvet Children.

The End.

Whitney speaks English, Russian, and Latin.

Secrets

• Winter's isolation leaves her fairly ignorant of current events, but her connection to the Madness Network is undeniable.