The nunnehi, not expecting serious resistance, fled, carrying their wounded, as Una assailed them with cold iron-tipped arrows. So armed, she hid herself in the hollows of the dunes and made her stand. She also discovered a hidden cache of weapons and cold iron, brought by "the dark ones," according to the trees. Using Arts of Primal and Soothsay, she learned the lay of the land, and worked this to her advantage. Her flight, however, was not without purpose. During the five hours Una was "lost," she was taunted and harried across the historical site, driven further and further from the safety of human company. A seemingly innocuous school outing to Fort Pulaski turned into a harrowing gauntlet for her she became separated from her group and it turned out that a small band of nunnehi were in the area. To mortal eyes, her first year was peaceful and serene, save for one "minor" incident. Instead, she resolved to make the best of it a world in which parents so cared for their children could not be irredeemable. If not for the obvious concern the Jenkins' showed the girl they thought to be their daughter, she would have forgotten all. To be cast out suddenly into the role of a quiet human teenager from suburbia was almost more than she could bear. She was young, and had endless summers of pleasure and romance ahead of her. It seemed to do the trick, and Martine slowly returned to her senses, though she was never quite the same.įor Una, the exile was particularly harsh. Once they were certain that her condition wasn't drug related, they did what they thought best: they gave her time and love.
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Her parents never considered professional help. That summer, Martine had a nervous breakdown for days she seemed dazed, apparently responding to things that weren't there, speaking of fantastical events, and sobbing uncontrollably. She replaced a mortal girl, Martine Jenkins, so that she would have some protection from Banality. The reasons for her exile have been forgotten, a casualty of the Mists, but it is known that her exile was neither inhumane nor haphazard. Lady Una, cast out of Arcadia in 1969, came to a very different Earth than the one of fae memory.