At the age of eleven, she awoke in the middle of the winter night, sniffling and sneezing. When her family, waking from the noise, investigated, her floor was covered in ice, and they could see their breath. They moved her to the fireplace for the night, where she dreamt that a little, blue, flying man playfully pursued her.

The next day, while playing alone in a field she saw the same creature watching her from a rock. She approached, seeming to know that she was in no danger, and the creature, an ice mephit, bowed to her gracefully. Apparently, the mephit had found himself flying, under compulsion, to her room. He predicted, quite correctly, that she had dreamed of flying. She had not slept that night; her relaxation set her into a trance that caused her to possess the familiar she had never known. He acknowledged the bond, and has chosen to remain with her.

They worked together tirelessly, developing her latent magical powers. While she understands very little of what magic is, and the theories of the mages behind its uses and manifestations, she understands how to “get it to work.” The theories, though, escape her, and a mephit makes a poor substitute teacher.

As she grew older, she became known as the "looker of the town," and her beauty became widely known. However, she didn't care for flattery or suitors, and she stubbornly refused any advances beyond friendship, often without explanation…indeed, she has been kissed several times, but never has never kissed back, simply staying perfectly relaxed, and not moving her lips in the slightest. She was never cold or distant, but simply apathetic, driving more of the local boys to confusion than anything else. The only man who ever approaches her as a confidante is her familiar.

Only, now, she is at the age of marriage. She knows that she’s expected to pick a man from the eligible young men of the village soon. She’s reluctantly attended various harvest festivals, gone walking near streams, listened to her sister Delilah at the inn while having a small drink, and the like, but none of the local boys truly interest her. She has no idea what to do, and awaits the future with uncertainty hanging as a large question mark before her.