Madeline Ricci

Madeline Ricci's young life was spent on the streets, it was not what would call glamorous. Her mother had abandoned her as she could afford to take care of yet another mouth. She ended up in the care of a woman named Ann who took care of all the forgotten ones as she called them. She fed them, clothed them, taught them to read and write, made sure they had their Birthright Ceremonies. However, after that--Ann sold them off to whore houses the first chance she got, how do you think she paid for everything?

Madeline was no different. She spent her early life learning Craft from witches there. Once her Basic Craft was solid, they moved on to Hearth Craft. It was what she was--Once she was old enough, or what they thought to be old enough, she would send her off to have her Virgin Night and that thought terrified her. Madeline knew about this life and what it meant. She knew about the sort of life they were training her for. What she wanted was to just get out. That was all.

It was three months later that she had her Virgin Night and they deemed her fit to start training for upstairs. Nine months later, she would be working rotations with other girls. It would be fifty years of this when it happened, Madeline became pregnant with a little girl. The Manager of the Red Moon House was angry--especially at her being adament at not drinking the tea to kill it. So she would stay downstairs out of sight and clean.

When it came time, the baby was taken from her--Madeline never saw Maria again. She prayed to the Darkness that she wasn't in a Red Moon House or in Ann's hands.

Years later, Madeline made enough money to do what she wanted, to buy her way out. She discovered she grew up, was adopted by the Dane family and married a good man. He was a Clockmaker, she was a Seamstress, they were expecting their first child. She couldn't disrupt that life. Her daughter was alive, her daughter was safe and happy.