09-12-2016, 03:59 PM
you won’t see me fall apart
"No," Thorunn says it too fast, too loud, making even herself jump at the urgency. No, hush yourself, you are independent. She tells herself. Since the loss of her family Thorunn carried on alone just fine. She'd made it this far, hadn't she? Some stroke of luck saved her after that mare destroyed her face - but that was it. A stroke of luck. No real talent or skill. She happened upon the Mountain just in time to keep from what should have been death. Or infection. Or both - slowly, but both.
"I've known Eight since I was a child," she explains. When did it become past tense? When did her youth become more of a passing thing than a current state of being? She knows when, deep down. When her family left she thought she'd grown, but the world kept forcing her to age despite her wishes. It was at long last, but it was here - adulthood. The time to step away from her parents shadows in this new land, with her new face, to make a name for herself.
"Camelia has been kind enough to help me," her words are still forced, whispered through a scab that broke open to reveal fresh, keloid material underneath. It ached and whined but she kept her composure. "So this is our new home?" All together, the most she's ever spoken - but it's a start.
It's a new day, after all.
"I've known Eight since I was a child," she explains. When did it become past tense? When did her youth become more of a passing thing than a current state of being? She knows when, deep down. When her family left she thought she'd grown, but the world kept forcing her to age despite her wishes. It was at long last, but it was here - adulthood. The time to step away from her parents shadows in this new land, with her new face, to make a name for herself.
"Camelia has been kind enough to help me," her words are still forced, whispered through a scab that broke open to reveal fresh, keloid material underneath. It ached and whined but she kept her composure. "So this is our new home?" All together, the most she's ever spoken - but it's a start.
It's a new day, after all.
THORUNN
COVET x LIBRETTE