Twisted heart

She felt the rumble in the floor under her feet more than she heard her brother snarl her name. It woke a part of her that had still been sleeping behind the fog of what happened that day.

The wordexiled echoed into her ears and for a moment the room was crystal clear as she spun around, though perhaps that was her imagination. The world was still dark and blurry as she tried to find him through the fog. He didn't mean that! He didn't! He couldn't! But she knew, there was a part of her that knew there was nothing she could do. She was clumsy. And try as she might she struggled to be a fighter like her brothers and sister. She would slow him down now while she recovered...

But she'll show him. She'll train harder and show him. She lifted the heavy rucksack, all 11" of her lifted it up and shook it at the shadow she thought was him.

"Fine! Run away... see if I care. Mr.Can't be responsible for anything. Leave!" She hefted the bag into a slingshot to land halfway across the room, scattering its random assortment of contents that were hardly fit for travel. She felt for the bedding before the tears could fall. Her ears pinned at her skull as she angrily stomped back into the nest and curled into the tightest tiny ball she could manage. Squeezing her head in between the pillows to hide her sobs.


"Citadel"||"Selene"