[leta]

[jackaleigh]

Leta
The Truth Lays a Burden Gleidh Barghest

Testify against me, I am guilty
Tell my lie, only truth can release me
The Washing Hands - Martin Grech

This Gleidh is quieter even more than most of her kin. She doesn't like talking much to strangers, or even to her friends. When she does speak, she's always blunt and to the point, usually with her gaze fixed on the ground. She prefers to keep everything business-like when possible; it spares her ever having to have an actual personal conversation with someone. She's an extremely private individual, secretive almost to a fault. Even with her bonded, she'll never really reveal any details about her life, or especially her past. In fact, whenever the subject of history comes up, she'll do her best to instantly derail the conversation, looking twice as uncomfortable as before. Whatever she's hiding, she obviously bears some rather heavy burdens of guilt and suffering on her shoulders. But though she often seems pessimistic about herself, as well as life in general, she soldiers on; she's determined to redeem herself in full. For that reason, she'll always protect anyone she sees in danger, especially children and her Bonded. It's not that she views Jackaleigh as incompetent, exactly...she just thinks he needs to be looked after. Besides, she could never live with herself if she let any harm come to him.

She's wiry, rather than muscular, but her strength and endurance should never be doubted. Once intent on her prey, she will never rest until she's run it down. Her fur is long for a Gleidh and would be pretty, if she bothered to give it the proper attention, but left to her own devices it quickly grows hopelessly tangled, giving her a look of constant scruffiness. She's mostly a uniform storm-grey hue, with darker shades that range almost to black striping across her body. The coarser hairs about her face and feet fade to near-white at their tips, making her look older than she is. Beneath the fur, unexplained scars trace their way across her skin, but someone would have to get very close to her indeed to be able to feel them.

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