"Wysteria"

March 2021

Wysteria, did you change your face again? Those of us who loved you when Can't even find you. Wysteria, did you lose another man? Did you make him understand That he can't touch you?

Was he just like all the rest When he got to the sad part? Did he stay a bit too long To save his heart...

~ Dan Fogelberg, Wysteria

Aurora is Ace's birth mother, and she unfortunately falls into ...not a very good means of making a living... She's known countless guys, and it's all a job to her, until one particular man shows up and changes everything. In that brief moment, she sees hope--and most importantly, love. She finds herself unable to continue her line of work, and she ends up disappearing from the streets of Fortanya. Rumor has it, she ran away because she was pregnant. Some say she died in childbirth, leaving her newborn son on the street. Others say the pain of losing the only man she ever loved drove her to depression and death.

Whatever the case, there are many who claim to have seen her in the shadows; her presence like that of a ghost.

This also ended up being a companion piece to Fallan's Daydream

Tags: Tale of Ace Gallagher