The Hollow

“If you can be anything, be kind. And if you can do anything, invest in your community.
You’re only as healthy as your community, and it’s the investment that always pays back interest.” ~UNKNOWN

Chapter One: The Little Saint

Prologue:
Max Ehrmann // Desiderata

Rosalia Orazia, born in Palermo, Sicily. She was raised by the nuns at the local Catholic orphanage. The only thing the nuns could tell Rosalia about her family is that she was  left on the church steps as a small infant. The only thing with her besides the thin blanket that protected her from the elements of nature,  the nuns told her was a short note  attached the basket she was in. The note simply said, "the Patron Saint  of Palermo, known as  The Little Saint watches over this small infant". They gave her the name of this saint and took the small infant into the orphanage.  

She grew up under the watchful eye of the nuns at the orphanage till she aged out at 15, they set her out on her own with only the clothes on her back. 

Rosalia made her way down to the docks and secured herself a position on a ship sailing to the new world, as a scullery maid.  Arriving in the States several months later, she stepped off the boat wide eyed and filled with anticipation for what her new life in the States would hold for her.

Intermission:
Luka Lesson// Moment to Moment

Chapter Two: Finding Work

Rosalia Orazia, the orphan from Sicily walked through the streets of Las Vegas. The fifteen year old dark haired girl was glad the nuns at the orphanage school were so adamant that the kids learned English. It had come in handy more than once since she stepped of the boat. After asking a few people on the streets where work could be found she was directed to a warehouse in Paradise. 

 Rosalia approached the large warehouse tentatively it was rather rundown so  she wasn't sure she was in the right place. She did see a sign above the open doors that read, "Laborers wanted”, even though she had not seen anyone yet  the sign eased  her mind a bit that this was the correct place.   After a few moments a large man was framed by the open doors like a picture hanging on a wall. He appeared to be sweeping just a few feet inside the building. She approached him finally convinced this was the place. 

"Ah, excuse me..." , she paused till the man looked up at her acknowledging her presence ...is the place looking for laborers?"  

Intermission:
Luka Lesson // Anonymous

Chapter Three: Oration of an Orphan

It had been a long day for the young girl named Rosalia, she was tired  and smelled of bleach and rotten candy and she didn't know what that other smell was and didn't think she wanted to either. She had finally scrubbed all the blood from the monster mash that happened on the steps of the HQ just a few days  earlier. She had barely cleaned up the cleaning gear she had used when the phone rang.

It was SumTingWong , the leader of The Hallow a group she worked for from time to time. She was perfect for many types of jobs, no one suspected a young child to do half of the jobs she had done. Children are easily overlooked and dismissed. He had expressed the need to talk to her. She hung the phone up and hastily cleaned up changing her blood stained and bleach stained clothes and headed to back to the HQ.... To find that she was no longer an orphan.

Intermission:

Luka Lesson // What Will Become of Us?