september 23rd - day of rekoning august 9th - actual birthday

her earliest memory is of 2 vague and blurry figures she can't remember the faces of leaving her near a tree and telling her to stay there. they don't come back.

sellyteth knows her name is sellyteth. it was the only thing she could remember vividly. " selly~ teth! your name goes sellyteth! “ she thought there was more to the rhyme but couldn’t remember. she had a gut feeling she was only 5.

mentally she marked how many days she’d been orphaned. she doesn’t remember her real birthday, but not that it mattered too much. she just uses september 23rd as a placeholder. having a natural knack for swiping things from people, and thievery in general ,she went around the streets hoping to find a seemingly rich but stupid tourist and pick pockets them. usually she got away with it, but when she didn't she was beat until she just a bloody mess of fur. she'd starve on the streets most of the time, and when she was lucky a stranger would look at her a certain way and give her a few pieces of xel. sometimes they'd try other things, but by then she had swiped their wallets and ran away screeching as loud as she could. she didn't look in mirrors and was lonely for the longest time.

she found a dying bird in an alley one of those days when she was limping " home " from a beating. she gave it all her food and spare water and nursed it completely back to health before naming it. in this period of togetherness, sellyteth grew extremely attached to the bird and loved hearing it sing. she named it selly bird. the bird had a knack for sing tunes and had a cute voice. so for a while, they made their money by singing together and putting on small concerts at the ??town square??. they still went through the struggles of being poor, but they had each other and that made everything ok. as the bird grew, it became prettier by the day and soon enough, they always had a small crowd of people at their little concerts. they made more pocket change then they had in the last 5 months, and sellyteth began to indulge herself with hopes and dreamt of things she couldn’t have at night. soon came people who wanted to buy her talented bird, and the offers steadily piled up. too attached to it, sellyteth refused them all even though 15,000 xel could of changed her life for the better. the bird began to have strange behaviors of not eating it’s food, coming home from it's late night walks in the early mornings and looking at the audience with a mistrustful and almost fearful look in it’s eyes. sellyteth shrugged this off thinking it was nothing and the next month they cashed in at least 500 xel from people who tipped them for their tunes. extremely proud of herself, she left selly by itself in her rooftop and set off. she went out to buy an extremely tasty pastry from a shop somewhat renown around the homeless for it's cheap but delicious treats. she came back to find a small but concerning pile of feathers left on the floor leading to the window and one mark on the floor no bird could make with their tiny claws. concerned, she paced and worried for the most of the night until she fell asleep with a feather to her heart. waking up, the days following selly's disappearance made everything almost unbearable. but she continued to do her chores of running around the town to get items needed from her clients. after a week of selly not coming back, young sellyteth spotted the bright yellow feathers out of the corners of her eyes and immediatel dropped everything to chase it.

then one day she pick pocketed the wrong lady...

she went up to a seemingly dumb dragonborn lady who was done up and down in accessories and highly sought out for exotic jewelry. she grabbed sellyteth's arm and brought it up, holding the innocent-ish baby faced tabaxi by one arm in the air. she didn't fight it because the nameless dragonborn lady was much taller than her. she held her and walked her all the way to her home, a huge ass mansion. eventually she's " adopted " by the lady of the mansion, Remessay Zellerie. for three years she's groomed in the ways of being a proper lady. eventually, when Remessay believed her to be ready for.. greater things, she brought her out to a very shady market, down a basment of a broken building and began to auction her off to the child trafficking ring she owned. sellyteth groomed to be her best child yet, done by her personally. in the chaos of someone trying to rescue their son, she escaped and found herself running until she found herself at the farthest point from the mansion and trafficking ring.

from then on, she began to be much more distrustful of adults, and people in general. finding her calling in helping others find things in exchange for her meals, bits a xel and the random knick knacks here required for the next task. she finally found steady ground and had connections that made sure she didn't starve out in the streets. she moved a lot until she settled on a nice rooftop on a tall abandoned building overlooking aelydrin.

for the next 10 years she built her reputation as the tabaxi who could help you under the table for a a somewhat bigger price than your side of the deal costed. infamous for the guaranteed retrieval of objects, she was only known as a rumor to those who seeked her out, and introduced herself to those looking for her.