You completed your novitiate six months ago, making you the most recently professed nun at Whitwood, but you are deeply unhappy. You have never had a true vocation. Your time as a novice was spent with bad grace, always a trouble for the Novice Mistress and eager to escape the restrictions of the Rule whenever possible. Yet, the money your father paid for your admission to Whitwood, coupled with his refusal to let you return home, ensured that you were not expelled.

You grew up in a restrictive and very pious family, where you never quite fit in and were in constant conflict with your parents and siblings. You were perfectly content to lie to them and sneak away from home to get what you wanted. At 16, you met the young son of a local gentleman by chance, and the two of you began meeting in secret. At first, it was just talking and enjoying each other’s company, but soon it grew into something more, and the two of you decided to marry. Unfortunately, the young man’s parents would never accept a marriage to someone of your comparatively low birth, so you ran away one evening with every intention of meeting him and riding off together to be married.

Unfortunately, you weren’t particularly good at sneaking. Your father’s servants caught up to you just one village over—you hadn’t even reached your lover’s house. You were never allowed to see him again. Upon your return home, your parents treated you with even greater coldness, and not long after, your father told you he had arranged a place for you at the distant Whitwood Abbey. You had no real interest in the religious life, but you had no choice either, so you entered the abbey as a novice a couple of years ago. Your novitiate was extremely difficult—you struggled greatly with the rules and were frequently beaten and punished by Bess, the Novice Mistress. Nevertheless, the money your parents paid to the abbey seemed sufficient to prevent your expulsion despite your many failures.