Beau ducked her head under her hands as she heard shouting outside her tent.  Her mothers voice came out more like a teary shriek and her father's a deep rumble.  This was a commonality in her life, and Beau knew to hide her head when it happened.  Her mother always told her to cover her ears because she was too young to understand they were fighting about.  However, despite her hands over her ears, she could still hear the loud slapping noise and the thud of her mom falling to the ground.  Her father ran and her mom crawled into their tent with her hand over her cheek.  That was the last time Beau's father had ever come back to Bree.  

(​Beau's drawing of her parents and her home in the tent)

Beau was eight when her father and mother separated.  Before then her mother was overprotective of Beau and spent all the time she could with Beau.  But when Beau's father left, it was as if her mother left as well.  Beau did not understand fully what her mother did for a job,  but she knew her mother always seemed to have one man or another on her arm. For two years her mother would drag Beau from one house to another every other week.  At first Beau thought it was fun, but that changed after she lived in a specific house.

This house was dirty.  Everything was dirty from the walls to the furniture to the man who her mother was bedding.  Beau sat on the floor because the hard wood was easier to wipe the dirt off while the bed was harder.  That was what Beau was doing actually.  She used the edge of the her short skirt to scrub the dirty wooden floor as she cleared a clean circle around her.  She sat down in the middle of the clean circle with  her legs crossed when the door swung open.  Her mother stumbled in with the dirty man, both laughing and drunk.  Beau perked up as she saw her mom, remembering her mom promised to take Beau to the woods and visit her father.  But instead Beau's mother and the man ignored Beau as they fell on the old dirty bed.  She watched them as they began to undress, but before they continued on any further, Beau stumbled to her feet and ran out the door.  

(Beau's drawing of a flower)

After that time, Beau decided she didn't want to leave the alley again to live in another house with her mother.  So instead Beau stayed in their old tent and waited for her mother to come by and check on her.  Nights came and chilled Beau to the bones as hunger set in her stomach.  When she asked her father for help because her mother stopped bringing Beau food, he responded with:

"Beau, ya gotta stay here 'n Bree an' be a big girl.  I ain't gonna be around to help ya, so ya got to look after yerself.  It's time ya learn how ta feed yerself and survive.  Just don' let yer mother die, alright?"

(Beau's drawing of the night sky)

Beau just nodded.  She knew her mother was broken and that is when Beau decided not to let herself be broken too.  She decided she wanted to grow up and be strong so that her mother could rely on her and she wouldn't have to rely on her.  But at the age of twelve, Beau found doing that was very difficult.  And then one day she met a man in the Pony.  He didn't talk ever, but he wasn't rude to Beau.  Upon initial meeting, he seemed to want her to go away as she tried to show off her drawings to him and get him to buy a few.  But as time passed this man, Mr. Lu ([Lucifen]) as she calls him, got to know her and began to care for the little girl.  In absence of Beau's mom, Mr. Lu took Beau in and let her live in his house.