Day Twenty - The Protagonist

I can't believe I've been blogging for twenty days. This blogging thing is new to me, but I have to say that I'm enjoying it. I also feel that, even though I haven't succeeded in writing fiction every single day of the week, I have upped the amount that I have been writing in general this month. I hope to continue with this habit!

I decided to go ahead and start introducing my characters. Each major character will be introduced by a quote of some kind, followed by a bit of a character sketch on them. Perhaps now you will have more of an idea of what I'm writing about.
First I will introduce The Protagonist.

Robin Mestah

"It had not taken Derrel long upon his arrival to realize that Robin was a general favorite among the inhabitants. It was not because of any particular beauty on her part, although she was generally thought to be quite pretty, but because of a sweetness of disposition, gentleness, and generosity. Although he could tell that she was shy and reserved, she was good natured and always had a ready smile and kind word for those around her that sprang not from a desire to make herself pleasing but from a goodness of heart."

Sixteen year old Robin Mestah, along with her twin brother Rory have been left in the relative safety of their treetop town Mennington, deep in the eastern Great Forest, while both their parents are fighting in the Rebellion in the west. While they are gone, Robin has taken over her mother's apothecary shop, where she makes medicine for the people in the town.

Robin thinks she is merely good at doing the job her mother taught her to do. In reality, Robin is a Greenwitch, one who understands herblore and the brewing of potions and tonics and has an innate bond with the earth. She also does not know yet that she is an earth spirit, one who has such a strong bond with the element that they are able to draw power from it. 

Before her mother left, she gave Robin a special necklace with a green stone, telling her it is a special talisman she must keep safe. Not long after her parents left, Robin began to have prophetic dreams of the future. Perhaps because of an innate intuition on her part, she can physically feel when these premonitions come true, especially ones she has not tried to prevent.

However, she lacks confidence. It is not confidence in her work - she knows her job inside and out - it is confidence in herself. If she is going to learn to become a healer like her mother and to fully come in to her powers, she will have to learn to believe in herself.