Rebecca Black is the daughter of Billy, and Sarah Black making her a member of House Black. Rebecca has three siblings in the form of Jacob, Kilin, and Miley Black of which Jacob is a brave young man that is the heir to House Black, her brother Kilin was killed during the Fall of Tree Hill after he followed Earl Scott and Jacob Swan to the scene, and her sister Miley is a beautiful young girl that is being prepared for a persuit of her marriage.
Rebecca Black is the POV character of the one chapter story Pitch Black in which she uncovers the madness of her uncle, and then attempts to deal with this madness.
Rebecca Black was born so much different then the person that she has become, but after a youth filled with happiness she would have a moment of horrifying fear that would shock her to her core. She visited a farm with her friends and when there she watched as her uncle Ephraim butchered her friends and then torchered her for three days before finally letting her go after she refused to scream. Returning home she knew in her heart she couldn't say a word so the happy go lucky girl was gone, and her family barely recegnized the girl that had come home. She would live in fear of her uncle, until finally the murder of Ephraim's family made her realize that she couldn't let him continue down the road he was on, and she decided that she needed to kill him.
Rebecca Black was born so much different then the person that she has become, but after a youth filled with happiness she would have a moment of horrifying fear that would shock her to her core. As a young girl she had been spending all her time at the House Black estates, and thus when two of her best friends decided they wanted to go out riding she was all for it. She and her friends would travel to one of the House Black owned farms which she had been to with her father once before, and once there they would enter the farm and planned to eat with the farmers there. When she entered the house she knew something was wrong immediatly upon entering the house, but her friends dismissed her and kept going in. When they entered they walked around the house and found noone inside she wanted to leave immediatly but her friends wanted to check the barn for a replacement saddle. Rebecca by this point was watching her friends laughing and having a fun time, but she was beyond scared, and every part of her didn't want to go into that barn, but one of the children that was with her was a boy she had a crush on and she worried that he wouldn't think she was cool unless she went with them.
"The body has a feeling that it lets off when it knows its in danger, and my body was practically shaking with fear as we walked towards that barn. There are times though when the fear of social damage overrides all other thoughts and leads us to a path of disaster."
-Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black was forced to deal with days of torture and then keep it all a secret once she returned home.
She relunctantly followed them into the barn where once they entered they saw bodies strewn on the floor, and this led to them trying to run out, but when they did they saw the barn door shut in front of them, and from the shadows her uncle Ephraim stepped out. Ephraim proceeded to taunt the group before killing them all one at a time in the most brutal ways imaginable. She wondered at this moment if he even knew that she was his niece, but as he walked from child to child killing she realized quickly that this man was a monster that had past beyond thought or conseuqence. Rebecca was the last one, and he waited for her to scream because thats what he wanted, but he became annoyed when she refused to scream for him.
"I understood then and there that he needed his victom to scream. He would hurt me, damage me, but unless I screamed there wasn't a chance in hell he killed me. Atleast that's what I said to myself."
-Rebecca Black
Ephraim and Rebecca would have a verbal confrontation as he chased her around the barn, and during this she attempted to understand why he would do all this, and when his anwsers proved to her that this man was gone, and very clearly capable of killing her she relented and allowed him to catch her. Ephraim would proceede to ritually torture her for three days hoping to elicit some kind of responce from her, but she refused to give in, and despite the horrible pain she endured she kept her strength and at the end of three days as the search parties for the other children entered the area, he was forced to release her, and clean up the mess he had made. He laughed the most crazy laugh she had ever heard as she cleaned herself up, and had a last look at her friends before she would never likely be able to even talk about them again. As she prepared to leave he made sure to threaten her that if she told anyone that he would kill her family. She thus left and decided to keep the secret so that noone from her family would ever feel the pain of what she had felt.
Forks
Murder of Ephraims Family
"The murder of Ephraim's family was something that shocked the entire family to its core. One day they were all there, and then the next day it was just Ephraim, and Colin left. Darkness was all there seemed to be for a time."
-Billy Black
Following this Lola became engaged to Kyle Eustern of House Eustern, and so everything was starting to look up for them until a month into the engagement their home on the Black Estate was filled with screams and then when the servents and the family entered the home they found Kyle butchered with his body strewn about the house, and Lola's clothes strewn about with a large amount of blood everywhere and when they followed the blood they discovered a scorched body beyond recegnition but that shared the size of his sister. Following this the family would have little time to absorb this devestating moment as only a week later Brendin died after becoming overcome with a horribly violent fever and died days later. Following this Colin was the lone survivor of his family other then his father as his mother died in her sleep without any apparent cause of death.
White Knife marriage
“I was unmarried, and I knew that my age was going to mean that it was only a matter of time. My mother had always told me the only thing to pray for was that your husband would be kind, because you were never going to get to choose yourself.”
Following the coronotation of William Lovie III. the tournament of Nortburg was held to celebrate this occasion, and during this many foreign kingdoms sent people to represent them and try to regrow relations with Lucerne as most relations were on life support under the rule of Bill Lovie. One of these groups was House Manderly of the White Knife, and they would send many members including Wylis Manderly and his wife and daughter, as well as Marlon Manderly the uncle of Wylis. After the tournament ended Wylis would come to speak with William Lovie III. and the two would discuss marriage options between the houses, and on the advise of Charlie Swan William's father in law it was decided that Miley Black would be married to Winfred Manderly the only son of Marlon Manderly. Miley would be recalled as quickly as possible to Nortburg where she met with Wylis, and Marlon and was seen to be exceptionally beautiful and smart and thus Marlon immediatly accepted the arrangement, and it was decided to happen shortly after. It was agreed between Wylis, and William that following the marriage the two groups would begin arrangements to bring the Manderlys into the sphere of Lucerne, and away from the growing threats of Bolten, and the Iron Islands.
“Miley Black getting married far away was the perfect excuse that I needed to escape the death that I saw everywhere I looked in Tree Hill. They could seemingly rebuild every fallen brick, and bring in hundreds of new people, but all I saw was death and pain.”
— Lucas Scott
Once the Manderlys returned to White Knife the wedding was already being planned, and it takes longer then expected after Ironborn raid several ships filled with wedding supplies purchased from Pontus. When the wedding is finally planned Miley Black and basically her entire family alongside many nobles of Forks travel to the White Knife for the wedding. Lucas Scott travels northward and alongside Morrigan joins the fleet going to White Knife and acts as the sort of commander of the defence of the fleet despite be uneeded due to the high strength of the fleet. On the trip to the White Knife Lucas Scott grows to be friends with Miley Black and the two share stories of their youth with Lucas withholding much of the true darkness that he went through. One night Morrigan finally confronts him on why he has lied so many times to Miley, and he breaks down revealing that he is trying to make himself believe it wasn't as bad as he knows it was, and the two share a kiss before making love in his room beneath deck.
“One of the first things that dies when your in the kind of hopeless situation we were in Tree Hill is the ability to understand human interaction. You long to be be treated kindly because for so long you were sad, but the sad truth is that strangers don't usually make the best crutches to stand on.”
— Lucas Scott
Arriving at the White Knife Lucas Scott was shown around the land by Wylis Manderly and his wife of whom held hands the entire time they walked Lucas around White Harbor. Lucas would remain with Wylis after his wife had to leave to wake up their youngest of whom needed milk, and the two would discuss the situation in White Knife, and Wylis was completely open as Lucas had a letter from William saying that Lucas was to be fully trusted with sensitive information for he was a loyal servent. Wylis discussed with him how the Boltens had begun sending word to White Harbor stating that the White Knife was deemed a part of the larger plans for Bolten, and that if they did not join with the Boltens then other steps would be taken to have them join. Lucas questioned whether they could hold off the Boltens, and Wylis told him that it was going to be difficult for the Boltens as the Manderlys had a large fleet which would make crossing very difficult, but if they were able to land they had significantly larger ground forces and in that case White Knife would fall. The two would be interupted when a messenger told Wylis that Domeric Bolten and his cousin had arrived in White Harbor with several other nobles, and wished to attend the wedding. Domeric Bolten would demand food be given to him so that he was under the guest right while he remained in White Harbor, and Lucas would briefly meet with the prince of Bolten, and despite what he had thought he would find Domeric was a kind young man.
“The Wedding went by without a hitch, but the presence of Domeric, and Jordin Bolton was something that opened my eyes to what awaited us in the not so far future.”
— Lucas Scott
The wedding went by without a hitch, and Lucas would make a point to meet fully with Domeric Bolten, and he leaves the wedding to find Domeric waiting outside the hall for him. The two leave the wedding and speak of many things, and Lucas is shocked at genuinly nice Domeric appears to be, and Domeric tells him a story of Bolten, and despite how well the two get along the conversation takes a dark turn when Domeric is forced to threaten Lucas with the knowledge that if Lucerne interferes anymore in the White Knife that he will be forced to intervene himself. Lucas knows that Domeric is a capable young man and knowingly takes this threat as more then just a hollow gesture knowing that Domeric will do this despite his gentle nature. Following their conversation Lucas receives a raven and it instructs him to return to Lucerne where he is to meet with his uncle Kieth in Highgarden, and he is to do this with all possible haste.
