These two are some of my faves in the mystery spectrum (Sorry Silver, but they're just cooler than you). They've got a very Buck-White Fang type relashionship in that they start and end as opposits, but they do have quite a few simmilarities:

*They both have the same father

*They are both rather rebelious

*They've each lost people they care about

There are a few more, but I'm not about to go listing all of them off (that would take forever). Those were the most important ones.

Anyway, Rebecca started out as a princess of a small island nation, one of six (legitimate) children, but only one of two (legitimate children) who survived a deadly epidemic (the other was her older sister, Amber Brigittia) that killed about half of the island's residents. While the epidemic was going on, a multitude of things happened that made the ordinary residents very angery with their king. He raised their taxes and then spent them on the best possible care for his children, as well as cutting off and isolating whole cities in an attempt to control the disease, condemning all of the area's residents to die.

The king wasn't very well liked before hand, but afterwords, he was hated. The people began having secret meetings, their goal being to overthrow the royal family. Hard as it is to belive, Rebecca was one of them...

After a few years, the king had enough of the rebels, and hired a "peace maker", a rather charming young man about Rebecca's age named James. He was hired to get rid of the rebels, but ended up siding with them, mainly because he was quite interested in Rebecca.

One thing led to another, and eventualy they ended up in a tangled love affair, which could have ended up as a very lovely relashionship, had Rebecca not abruptly sent him away. Almost a year later, she was banished and sent away to be a servant in a near by country for a ruthless man, though her parents didn't tell that story...

They told their people that Rebbeca died, that she was murdered by one of the rebels. They claimed that she had been unwell for months (no one had seen her at all over the last eight months) and that she had been given a medication laced with poison.

{{ This is getting rather long, I'll continue this in another story. You'll get more about Macaw in that one.