Kerlav

Kerlav is the husband of Lustresse.   “Roshi will bind you tonight then, we don’t have but a few hours before they come to march for their final day.” Said Rahab. “Who is Roshi?” “He is the son of Jeru, and Lustresse’s brother. He is a priest of Scarlet. He won’t survive, no one will, just me and my family. They were very clear. We have to fit in that room. There will only be a few of us and no-one else can know. Lustresse is a true scarlet Kerlav. Her mother came from the village that the giants made of their captives. They wanted a farming village so they rounded up captives from their captured village, stripped them all down in the river and paired them off and mated them like animals, this was seventy years ago. Jeru’s wife had come from that village. She was one of the twenty-year-olds at the time, and Jeru who dyes my cloth and weaves the image tapestries, came and took her, when Jericho had no brides on which to build its population. Her mother and father may still be in the village though it is surprising that she was not taken too if she is as beautiful as Lustresse describes her, she had a husband too and a small child when she left. When she had given Jeru seven children Trensa went back to find her husband. Well that is what Jeru thinks anyway. Trensa had the mark on her back, the mark of Scarlet, some of my girls have it, well all of her sisters, but the rest of the girls we just treat with the scarlet, but she is the mother of all who actually have the mark. There is no knowing where the giants originally got the captives that they used to form that village, but Trensa and probably her mother before her, were chosen for their particular beauty and it is not just a human beauty, it is mixed.” Said Rahab. “Mixed from what?” Asked Kerlav. “From the Scarlet moon, they say there were giants who came and found the women of the valley of giants, thousands of years ago. They were cursed on their moon and they escaped from their prisons after being cast out from their moon. And they arrived at that valley. That is all that I know of the history. But Lustresse is truly like a daughter to me and I want you to have her as wife, it is the only way that she will be saved. “Yes, by all means yes! Let’s find Roshi, we will do it right away.