10-13-2019, 06:57 PM
the opposite of love's indifference
She is bored.
And perhaps this new, adult boredom is more dangerous than the boredom she had taken out on her sister in the earliest days of their youth.
She was born restless with an insatiable appetite for life that often manifested itself in cruelty. She had bullied Kade, turned her into a pawn that she could use for her own entertainment, and then begun to resent her when others were drawn to her. Perhaps this is dangerous, too.
But Kade is not here and Karina is forced to find her own entertainment. If she were kind, she might have conjured up tiny, brilliant balls of light to illuminate the meadow. To delight its residents. Instead, she conjures great beams of light and casts them into the shadows, throwing those dwelling in the darkness into stark relief.
And she laughs and it is cruel.
There, in a bank of shadows, is a face that she recognizes. She does not immediately know why. But it doesn’t matter, really, because she moves into their space with her eyes narrowed in concentration. The light she conjures overhead casts their features into shadows and she shifts it until she can make out every plain and angle of this familiar stranger’s face.
“I know you,” she says, suspicious. It is unclear whether she’s suspicious of the stranger or her inability to place the face. “How do I know you?” She notches up her chin then and the light dissolves and they are plunged back into darkness. The moonlight is even paler in comparison, but it’s good enough.
winged daughter of jarris and plumeria
forever twin of their forever daughter kade