Rylan: Many Losses

I was only eight or nine when it happened.
It was a year of tragedy. That was the year that I lost my beloved mother. I don't know how it happened still. It was all so fast, and I never understood how she had died. No one did really. She just passed away in her sleep. It was like she had died of old age, but she had only been in her 30s. I knew that something else had caused her death. Even if I had no idea what that was.
Then, when I was fifteen years old, I lost the person I cared about as much as my mother. Though, the loss had only been temporary. Nissa had been the best friend I could have asked for. Even if I'd always hoped for her to be something more... That aside, she'd always been a good friend to me. But then, she stopped visiting me in Idari that year. It was as if she had vanished from the face of the earth. I could only hope that, someday, I would see her again.
To make matters worse, that was the same year that she showed up. That red-eyed woman with the auburn hair and bone white skin. She'd turned my own father against me. I spent the remainder of my teenage years alone. I think that loss was, perhaps, the worst.
After all, I had lost my friend and my mother, how could I lose my father as well?