Lynesse

Lynesse is the daughter of a wheat farmer and his wife in the Reach.

Appearance and Character
Lynesse is a slight woman, aged 15 years. Her gaunt frame tells of years of malnutrition and poverty. Her face is pleasant, if not beautiful. Her hair is the color of the wheat her father grew, honey streaked with lighter blonde. She seldom smiles wide, due to the missing tooth on the lower-left side; the result of a mean dray who didn't like her standing too close to her flank when Lynesse was but 10 years old.

History
The daughter of a wheat farmer in the middle of nowhere, Lynesse's childhood was one of much work and little play. She met no one but her parents, her brother, and two hired-hands until she was eight years old. At that age, her father began bringing her to the markets when he would take his wares.

Tension grew between her father and the farm to the East. After years of threats and fights, when Lynesse was ten and three, a group of twenty some odd men appeared on the horizon at dusk with torches, axes, and swords.

Father set her and her Ren, (six) on the one palfrey they had and set it running. "THE MANDER!" was the last thing she heard her father say as he grew smaller over her shoulder. She shut her eyes when the torches reached the house.

Following a small stream North, she eventually found the Mander as her father instructed. For nearly two weeks they stayed at the banks, waiting for their parents, subsiding on fish and rabbit.

Finally, having given up hope they made for CiderHall.

The next six months were a nightmare of stone alleyways, empty bellys and fear they were followed. They moved aimlessly, unsure of where they were. In a busy market in Bitterbridge, they found themselves in a crowd and Ren disappeared from her side. She called his name and searched for four days before the merchants summoned the guards to deal with her. They wanted to hear nothing of the missing street child and escorted her out of the city gates.

Destitute and hungry, she walked with a mummer's troupe who was kind enough to share some figs and dried dates with her, as they walked to King's Landing.

Family
Father and Mother presumed dead in bandit raid, arranged by their neighbor. Brother lost in Bitterbridge.