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….Never mind, you’ll ignore Liu for now, there are more details to Rise’s backstory.
The reading starts with a little excerpt of Dorothy that details her apprehension on writing this down, it appears all this information is puzzled together from the many stories Ka-Shing got from Rise when they were winding down, the Mad Girl went into weird diatribes that slowly devolved into random anecdotes from her past, all disconnected. The rich man personally asked Dorothy to keep track of all this information as only the three were present during their meetings. He wanted the full story for whatever reason. She didn’t question it, since the Terrorist Head and the Lunatic Billionaire appeared to have an unorthodox sibling bond. Odd as it may be, it appeared legitimate to her.
Without further ado, this is the summary of Rise’s story:
Yu Yan Liamishi was abandoned as a baby by her fugitive mother at the doorsteps of a Library in Gravenriden. There, she was adopted by the avid reader and hiker who found her. A modest foreigner man with not much to his name, and said name was never uttered by Rise’s lips. He was dad, and nothing else. His expedition to find an Old Legendary Yuropean Treasure got a new member.
They lived humble lives, going around the island. Gravenriden, by that point, wasn’t in the same shape as years past, its place as the World’s Biggest Port, the connection between Prancijan and the rest of the planet, was long gone with the hybrid Prancijanian and Yuropean rule it had. The island lived in a state of limbo after the treaty that returned the land fully back to Prancijan, since it couldn’t be decided to which region belonged to between Lokyo and Yoinkshire, even though the island and its populace wanted autonomy for itself.
Regardless, they managed to get by. And their bond was special. Rise recalled many stories about her father with a fondness that made her act… <span class="mu-i">normal</span>. Tales about camping, fishing, bartering, helping the sick and the poorer with what they had. And they bickered, they bickered a lot, they couldn’t help themselves trying to one-up each other, even if the old man had a nice streak, he was always trying to politely tell Yu Yan off. And Yu Yan? She had no filter. The old man heard everything a little girl’s mouth shouldn’t say. People weren’t fond of them, but they made themselves useful, so what could they do but stand them?
But the tension within the border hit a fever pitch and a civil war broke out. They were arrested for supposedly being Yoinkshire instigators as foreigners often were assumed to be. Yu Yan’s dad managed to break them out of their prison, got them to the port, and sent Yu Yan to the mainland. There wasn’t enough space for him.
Later that port was bombed to ashes, and her father was never heard from again.
