Editing KHoS:Sarah (section)

=Background=
Sarah was very shy as a child, often preferring to stay indoors and keep to herself. She usually enjoyed the rare occasions when someone would pry her out of her room, but never worked up the courage herself to initiate any such adventures, leaving that to her few friends. One such friend was a young hunter by the name of Eric Seward, who she grew to consider an older brother figure. Eventually, he introduced her to his teammates, all of whom adored her (and she in return), until the day when every last one of them fell in battle against the kaiju Outcry.

Much as she wants to forget the memories of that day, she can still clearly recall them: the intensity of Outcry's screams, the turmoil as she and the other civilians rushed for the underground shelters, and worst of all, the sight of Eric's mangled body as she emerged from the shelter, his lance laying crushed at his side. Before she could be dragged away from the scene, she took hold of a small remnant of his weapon, Ardent Spike, and kept it as her last memory of him.

As it turned out, the piece she'd kept had an unusually high concentration of adamantine. Years later, when the commander of the local hunter unit found out she had it, he tried multiple times to get Sarah to give it up; nevertheless, she refused every time. Frustrated, he was going to attempt to take it by force, until his superior managed to reach a compromise; if Sarah would agree to be trained as a hunter, and passed the all the trials therein, she would be allowed to keep it as part of her own weapon. Sarah quickly agreed, and so she began her training to use Sterling Storm, vowing to make sure that nobody else would have to suffer as she did.