Who exactly was Elara?
She grew up dirt poor. Her dad was a gambling addict, her mom had died young, and she had three younger siblings to feed. The entire weight of her family rested squarely on her shoulders.
She dropped out of school at 13 to work, taking every gross, backbreaking gig under the sun—scrubbing caked-on food off dishes, buffing scuffs off strangers' shoes, you name it.
She braved wind and rain, got chewed out by rude customers, and even got groped by sleazy old men. There wasn't a single kind of hardship she hadn't endured.
Luckily, she was blessed with a stunning face. When she was 16, a talent scout spotted her even without a stitch of makeup on.
That was the turning point of her life, and everything went smoothly from there.
Twelve years flew by in the blink of an
