Eurwen
the secret to walking on water is
knowing where the rocks lie
knowing where the rocks lie
Life, she thinks, can take so many weird turns. Like this one. Put a girl outside her comfort zone, just to see what happens. Have her grow up and shrink down, like it’s nothing, and expect her to grow from it. Give her some magic and a pretty look to compensate the horrors.
But it’s not like she ever really forgets.
She hasn’t seen Dagen or Brazen since those days. She wonders if they’re okay, if they’re all right, but mostly the yearling can wonder if either or both of them had chosen to stay adults. Life might be easier for them if they had. Independent from overprotective parents. People looking up to them? She can only wonder.
Now she has people looking at her, too, but moreso with expectations of her to grow and learn how to rule.
How does one learn to lead? As far as she is concerned it’s either in her or it isn’t. That’s just something she’ll need to find out. Sometimes she thinks it was the wrong choice and she should be allowed to stay a child.
But she was never really a child to begin with. Careful more than curious and the one time she was more curious, it had been easy for her to see why being careful was much better.
Healthier.
She wanders outside of Nerine today, the kingdom of rocks in the sea. It is sometimes a little too similar to the Cove for her, even though it is much rougher around the edges.
But she knows that with time even sharp rocks will grow smooth, and perhaps the same goes for her and the Nerinian people.
And perhaps with time she’ll be a good heir, even a good queen.
For now, she steals whatever time she has, a little ways away. Far enough to try thinking of something else, she hopes.
But it’s not like she ever really forgets.
She hasn’t seen Dagen or Brazen since those days. She wonders if they’re okay, if they’re all right, but mostly the yearling can wonder if either or both of them had chosen to stay adults. Life might be easier for them if they had. Independent from overprotective parents. People looking up to them? She can only wonder.
Now she has people looking at her, too, but moreso with expectations of her to grow and learn how to rule.
How does one learn to lead? As far as she is concerned it’s either in her or it isn’t. That’s just something she’ll need to find out. Sometimes she thinks it was the wrong choice and she should be allowed to stay a child.
But she was never really a child to begin with. Careful more than curious and the one time she was more curious, it had been easy for her to see why being careful was much better.
Healthier.
She wanders outside of Nerine today, the kingdom of rocks in the sea. It is sometimes a little too similar to the Cove for her, even though it is much rougher around the edges.
But she knows that with time even sharp rocks will grow smooth, and perhaps the same goes for her and the Nerinian people.
And perhaps with time she’ll be a good heir, even a good queen.
For now, she steals whatever time she has, a little ways away. Far enough to try thinking of something else, she hopes.
@Eight uhhh here is... something?