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Meghan was born as the youngest of five children to the Rayla-allied Korin house Tullia, and complications from her birth rendered her mother unable to have any more children. forever destroying any dreams Meghan might have of having a little brother or sister. Someone younger that her siblings could tease instead of her. Instead, Meghan put up with teasing, none of which escalated beyond what's fairly standard for most families. Meghan never quite grew accustomed to being teased, though, and felt often that the jibes and joking insults were meant in earnest.

Meghan loved fairy stories and legends, and loved the story of Lady Egwene most of all. It was a terribly, terribly sad story, and so beautiful, and from that moment on, Meghan decided she wanted to be pegasus knight. Her parents had few qualms as long as she did what she was told, attended all her lessons, and took up riding to prepare herself for what being a pegasus knight entailed.

Since she was eight, Meghan has done eveything her parents have asked her. She's never missed a lesson, not even of mathematics, which she hates, and she's never missed a day of training, though her skills with the lance are still less than perfect. She's never given any mouth back to her siblings, cleared her plate at every meal, and did her best not to cry too hard when she was upset. And for a while, things seemed to be paying off. Her parents agreed that, when she was ten and winter had settled over Tullia, Meghan could take a small squadron of knights -- all female -- to help her capture her own pegasus, and train it once they were back on Tullian ground.

The months leading up to Meghan's tenth birthday were not kind to her ambitions, however. Rebels, presumably some from the northern reaches of Tullia's lands, hungry, starving, sick, and desperate, attacked Tullia, drawing on their troops to defend what Tullia had. The rebels were merciless and determined to get what they wanted, and so Lady Eve's letter calling the banners of Rayla to arms arrived in the midst of things. Meghan's father hurried to respond to Lady Eve, explaining the situation, and Meghan just started to hope that maybe everything would be over by the time winter came again. The attacks subsided a little, and what Tullian troops could be spared were sent to Rayla, and Meghan dared to hope.

Word of Lady Eve's proclamation swept through the House and out again, but the rebels were amassing their strength again, and Lord Norton had to strike at them while he still had the choice and the ability to do so. It was after the battle (which the rebels had already begun to call a "slaughter") before the weight of the proclamation sank in. Dame Trista, a messenger of Tullia's, sent toward the border to do some business with the merchants there, had been ambushed and killed by bandits along the way. She was dead, her pegasus either dead as well or sold to some caravan or black-market trader.

Meghan never had the courage to ask her parents about pegasi again. She already knew the answer, and had from the moment they'd stopped making her go to her riding lessons.

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