However, despite that, she survived. She was quick to pick up on the skills the rest of the group had learned, namely moving fast and keeping quiet, so it really didn't come as a surprise when she started taking trips into the village on her own. Without permission, of course. It may not have been a safe lifestyle, but it was all she knew, and she made the most of it where she could. Constantly curious about the world outside the village, one her parents had often told her about, she often wondered what was out there waiting for her.
Sadly, Alana's parents died when she was seven, sacrificing themselves to buy time for others survivors to escape a bad situation. It wasn't long later a threat of a biohazard reached them, forcing the entire group to wear gas masks for days on end. Alana, however, kept her gas mask on even long after the biohazard threat ended. Not out of fear of choking on gas or inhaling some biological substance that would kill her, but 'for good luck'. Skipping ahead through most of her childhood and teen years though we come to recently when she finally left her home for the first time. A decision had been made to try and get the survivors out of there, away to a better life, and with much effort and many deaths, they succeeded.
How Alana came to be at Argent Moon is another odd story. While she was out of the hellish village she'd grown up in, modern life in civilization was something completely new to her, and seeing people go about life without weapons on them was terribly confusing. A chance encounter with an unusual foreign man led to her being taught English, learning some level of how life worked on the outside and then the offer of a job as the man's assistant. It turned out he was the nurse at some kind of school out on an island somewhere, and with nowhere else to go, Alana agreed.
So, technically Alana is an assistant staff member. That said, it is common to see her outside of the medical station, confusing all who meet her.
I am Inferi.
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