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I was born in tbd city and raised by my parents up until the age of 11 at which they were lost to a tbd event. I was left alone on the streets to fend for myself. At first it was a struggle surviving alone but I started to develop skills which helped me make it day by day. I learned to get around the city safely and efficiently avoiding dangerous areas and getting to places where the best food can be found as quickly as possible before the other urchins and beggars came to scavenge as well. I would collect whatever food and clothes I could find and do my best to hide out during the nights to avoid getting what little I have stolen from me by the other urchins and beggars. As good as my skills had become over the years I spent on the street they couldn't help me with the biggest killer and that was disease. When I was around 15 I caught a deadly disease which quickly left me in a state in which I could no longer do much else except lie in the street and wait to die. It was at this point that tbd noble djinni who had taken an interest in me decided to make me an offer. He told me he could easily cure my disease help fix my life in exchange for my service to him. Seeing as my options were death or service I accepted the deal without much hesitation.


In an instant I felt better than I had ever felt before, all signs of the disease had simply disappeared. He told me that in order to properly serve him I would have to match a certain standard he required, so he gave me money so that I would be able to get myself properly clothed and cleaned and so I can find myself a place to sleep. He then financed my education so that I can fully meet his standards. During my 8 years in school I did my best to erase all traces of where I came from, I made sure to always have nice clothes and I did my very best to get rid of the accent I developed living on the streets, although it still pops up every now and then.


 
The djinni wasn't going to let me sit idly by while I was in school so he told me I was to visit the temple of Yraldin and get close to the priests. I was to form a good relationship with the temple and offer my help in their in their ongoing struggle with Sha and her followers in the city. I spent parts of my free time in Yraldin's temple, a place I had visited in my days on the street since they offered charity to the poor and homeless, helping around with chores and other simple tasks. After around a year of working in the temple I felt I could step up and offer to help out with bigger problems trying not to specify anything. They told me of some of their tougher challenges including the followers of Sha, but they quickly dismissed them as I was a child and it was too dangerous for me. I insisted that they were perfect for me as I could appear desperate to them so that they think they have an easy way to control me, and I also know the city well so I can get around the less known areas to try and find their hideout. The priests were still very hesitant and told me to leave it for now and ask them again when I was older.


 
Seeing that I had hit a dead end the djinni told me he had used his magic and found the location of the hideout. I was to go to it and try and join Sha's spies and get at least a little bit of info and bring it to the temple to prove myself. I disguised myself as an urchin and hid the rest of my things in my lantern and went to the area where the hideout was. I hung around near it and waited until I saw one of the followers of Sha leave, so I started harassing him, acting desperate, asking for help, money or food and just generally pestering him, as most other people in the city he just told me to go away (but not in such a nice way) and went on with his business. I repeated the same act with multiple other cultists over the next few days until they took the bait and offered to help me. They had decided to exploit my desperation and innocent appearance as an urchin to spy on certain places in exchange for money and food. They showed me the entrance to the hideout and I was to give the guard a code phrase and after that any info I had learned and he would give me a reward. I accepted the offer and began doing as asked feeding them information about anyone and any place they asked me to watch while begging on the street. During this same time I visited the temple of Yraldin and told them I had found the entrance to the hideout of the followers of Sha. Seeing I wouldn't give up on investigating Sha and I had actually made progress they gave up and let me help so long as I stuck to what I was already doing and didn't put myself in further danger.


 
Around 2 years passed with me juggling school and helping Sha's followers by spying as a beggar at which point their trust in me had started to build up and they would even occasionally let me in to the guard chamber of the hideout to warm myself up and eat as a reward for my work. Seeing that I was doing a good job and I was pretty dedicated and reliant on them they decided to offer me to do more for them in exchange for a better reward: clothing and a place to live. Continuing on my desperate act and with a strange guiding force coming from the lantern, the djinni I guess, I accepted. I was lead into the guard chamber where I was blindfolded and searched. After they were satisfied that I wasn't hiding anything they lead me through a set of winding corridors to a small room with a bed at which point they removed the blindfold. The person escorting me told me I was going to live in that cell until my training was complete and they were sure I would serve them without hesitation.


 
Every day they would lead me out of the room, once again blindfolded, to a large room where they would train me in the basics of spy craft: sneaking around, deceiving, memorising chunks of information without writing it down and some very basic self defence. I found the new skills quite useful especially since I began to form a map of the general area I got lead around in my mind and I memorised details of the hideout and things going on inside, at least the ones I could see. I'm not sure long I spent in training but they eventually decided I was ready and I was officially sworn in to the lowest ranks of Sha's followers.


 
I was given my first task, to spy on some targets of low importance. The idea was to prove my skills in the field rather than actually gather any info they didn't already possess. I was told to report back twice a month and other wise blend in with the rest of the citizens to not stand out and that I can use an inn which Sha's followers control if I needed a place to stay. When I showed I understood my task I was once again blindfolded and lead outside to begin working. I set out and did my best to lose anyone who might be trailing me, magic and some time hiding in the lantern really helped out in that regard. While hiding in the lantern I wrote down everything I had seen and heard and created a map of the parts of the hideout I had been in. When I believed to be in the clear I went to Yraldin's temple to report on my findings. The priests were very happy to see that I was ok as I had apparently been gone for months. The information I brought them amazed them as it gave them more of an understanding of the Sha hideout than anything they had up until then. Weirdly when I returned to school no one had noticed me missing, they were even completely certain I had been there the entire time. That night the djinni told me had covered for me as I was doing good work.


 
Under the djinni's guidance I continued my undercover work for Sha's followers. I was occasionally given extra training and new assignments, but overall my position amongst them did not change much despite me having worked as their spy for over 4 years. I have now graduated school and have been continuously been promised a promotion is coming soon though what that means is yet another secret amongst Sha's faithful. Now dressed in fancy clothes with jewelry(mostly gold plated) I cover up all that is left of my time on the streets. But despite all the silks, the denial and even the powers I was given by the djinn my old instincts still live in me in the form of a constant fear. I am constantly haunted by the idea that I will once again lose everything, I try to avoid direct conflict and if it becomes necessary I'd rather be as far from the danger as possible. I also still fear the night and its dangers to this day, expecting someone to come and take my possessions. Knowing how terrible life on the street is I do my best to help out others in need when I can, starting with the orphanage in my home city which I am sponsoring and which I will fund with part of the money I make working for the djnni as a spy for Yraldin.

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