32 Her Parents' Journal

The dreams stopped when Lara lost her parents the year she clocked eighteen. They were never home anyways, always touring Aerithor and neighbouring kingdoms for reasons she never understood. And the journeys they loved so much eventually claimed their lives in a fatal carriage accident. But they were her parents and she loved them so she bawled her eyes out for several days. When she was calm enough to reflect on things, she was informed that her parents had died and left her completely in control of an estate so vast, she could not ever finish it in her lifetime. And so the term, The Lady of Trarko House was born. Lara just couldn't imagine what to do with all that wealth, not particularly at a time when the kingdom began to experience the first throes of acute economic issues. Initially, all she did was give money and food away freely but when people started taking it for granted, she had to employ people and make sure there were proper channels for everything. Everyone had t