Indica "Hope" Augusti

History:

Indica's father left to fight when she was only six months old, to never return to the beautiful Empire of Rome. This left her mother to raise three children on her own, working in the marketplace day to day to make ends meat, and failing in the harshness of winter. A peasant, through and through, when Indica was seven years old, her eldest sibling, Marius, turned thirteen, and their mother sent him to work. Marius worked in the marketplace with his mother for a brief time before Salvia was old enough to take his place, leaving the nine-year-old Indica to roam freely. Marius took a job in the Roman Military, and has been working his way up in rank, constantly sending his earnings back to his mother to support his two younger sisters.
On Indica's thirteenth birthday, she began to see things that others could not, things that would happen very soon after she had seen them. Things that no one should have known about. A man who bumped into her in the marketplace gave her visions of a wedding, and the groom was laying dead on the altar. Two days later, at his daughter's wedding, her fiancé dropped dead at the altar of what an investigation revealed to be a poison of some sort. A woman had lost her daughter somewhere outside of the city, and when she'd stopped and taken Indica's hand, Indica saw her daughter wandering back towards the city in the twilight of dusk.
Only when she told her mother of such strange things did she make any progress in beginning to understand it. A witch passing through town had told her she had the gift of an Oracle, the gift to see into the future at unpredictable intervals. This meant that it could be a day, or a week before her visions came to be. Five years would pass, giving her the time to better understand her 'gift', realizing that it could be used only through the direct touch of skin on skin, and that somehow, cloth prevented the ability from being used, even when tried.

Shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Hope began to catch glimpses and wisps of thoughts from others around her. Mostly it happened with Telekinetic (those with the ability of telekinesis). Deeply concerned about her daughters increasing abilities, Jaqueline consulted an academic scholar who specialized in the supernatural and unusual. After a few short tests, it was determined that Hope had acquired the gift of telekinesis. Perhaps it was the growing of age, perhaps it was something mystical and unknown, but in either case, she began to see into the minds of others. Some were easier than others, some were impossible, and still others she could read like a book. Every thought, every notion that passed through their minds became her own thoughts, her own notions.
Shortly after her twenty-first birthday, her mother passed away, and Salvia moved into the city to find herself a husband. Marius was busy with the military, still sending both of his sisters every cent he could spare, providing them both with enough money to make it from one day to the next. With nothing left to hold her within the grasp of the Roman Empire, she set out to explore the world, finding more and more just how rare her gifts were, and just how valuable some might believe them to be. Meeting with the few others who shared her gift has taught her the secrets to protecting herself from the greed of others, to keeping her gifts a secret.

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