Natan Raidan [d8]

NAME Natan Raidan
AGE 11
DISTRICT Eight
GENDER Male

APPEARANCE I'm skittish, and it's not because I was made that way. I know exactly why, and you can see it through the bruises against my skin, even through my skin tone. My small frame comes as an advantage, though. If I were any larger, the hand-me-downs wouldn't drape over me the way they do and I'd be much more susceptible to having my siblings see what my dad has done. Head's a mess of black, eye's a drop of chocolate, there's a tad bit of baby-fat left over in my cheeks, the only reminder of a good childhood.

PERSONALITY I've always had a knack for reading. Books in my small wooden crate library have been read many times over, to the point where I know what happens on what page. I've always been opinionated, much like Naam. In fact, we're all an opinionated family. I'm not nearly as social as some of my siblings, though. Always nervous except for when I'm lost in a book. I like to escape to different worlds, and I think anyone who doesn't is strange.

HISTORY I discovered I loved to read when I learned the alphabet and what sounds made what. I got my first book at the age of 7 and it's been read so much that the pages have begun to fall out. It wasn't until I was 9 that Dad grabbed me by the shirt collar and took me out back. I was his stress ball. It didn't happen too often, the times that we were even shorter on money were some of the best because I knew he couldn't get his alcohol.

CODEWORD odair