WHERE ART THOU?
“I’m doing alright. You don’t gotta worry ‘bout me! Promise. Now let’s go to the training grounds. The instructor has been annoyed that I’ve been skippin’ out on my drills the last few days.”
Eva, according to 90% of Kadeu, is a ball of sunshine. She’s never one to anger easily, and no one has ever recalled seeing the young Shifter cry. Eva has always been the resident soft-hearted troublemaker that everyone adores. But ever since Airang she’s been more…subdued. Her smiles are still quick flash in your direction and her bubbly laugh can be heard from blocks away, but many can’t help but notice how Eva has been traveling in and out of Club, or sitting by herself, unusually quiet until you pull her out of her thoughts. What is wrong with Sombra? She finally grow up? You’ll hear her fellow Spades whisper, but with no amount of relief or enthusiasm.
They find out soon enough whenever Jung Anton is brought up in conversation. The unusually reserved Eva will suddenly become heated as she defends a man outed for being resistance and a murderer. That doesn’t seem to stop the Shifter, though. Eva is tired of hearing her late friend’s name dragged through the mud and she won’t stand idly by when someone says something against him.
Simply put, Eva’s sudden temper has come as a shock to her peers and Eva herself. She’s not quite sure how to handle the hole in her heart that Anton left behind. The rising tensions in Club haven’t aided in her healing either. Clearly, the civil war happening in her former home played a part in TonTon’s death and Eva has been spending a bit more time trying to learn about the resistance in the hopes of understanding Anton a bit more. She knew Kadeu had its problems—she just wasn’t prepared for it to hit so close to home. Her anger, hurt, and confusion at the current Club Ace, HIM’s people, and the resistance have made her desperate to find something to do in order to help her former home and its people. She’ll never say otherwise, but Eva has wondered why her own Ace has said nothing of the crisis, but she understands why he might not. It’s simply not a Spade problem. But to Eva, it’s a Kadeu problem, and she wishes the other factions would take it more seriously than closing off borders and ignoring the rising tensions.
Regardless of her feelings about Anton, the resistance, the civil war, and every other mess in Kadeu, Eva has been adamant about making sure her work isn’t affected. In fact, it is because of all the happenings that she’s so determined to her absolute best at her job. The better the job she does, the faster she can go up the ranks. And the sooner she can obtain the power to make a significant difference. At the moment, though, all the young Spade can do is follow orders and deliver letters and stamp documents. If only she could do more now…
Eva still has concerns about the corruption because while she has gotten rations to get by thanks to her faction, it is simply not enough for a Shifter. She has been venturing out beyond the walls in search of uncorrupted water, but seeing as there’s no luck in that department, she’s finally bitten the knife and simply set aside coin to (hopefully) afford the services of a water elementalist. She was going to Club and making trades with their elementalists, but when Kol kidnapped them, Eva lost her one source besides Spades.
