10-06-2016, 07:42 AM
you won’t see me fall apart
It's then she decides to wander.
Perhaps it's in spite of her face - or because of it. She simultaneously wants to wipe it from the earth but also to scar it further, to make it a perfect mesh of rotted flesh scarred beyond all recognition. If she is too ugly to bear, she will be fully ugly. Wretched.
But then again she is fully aware of what it's like to look upon it. To see, from one side, the soft skin of youth, the touches of immortality. To smile, knowing that in her peaceful youth she was still beautiful and charming. But then - the scar.
Maimed.
Maybe it drove her realization. Maybe Beqanna's shifting landscape did. She realized - quite suddenly - that she'd never truly left the Valley. She was born there, she would die there, like her parents.
Not anymore, though. No one was going to die in the Valley. or the Dale. or the Tundra.
And she suddenly realized she did not belong caged in one kingdom, refusing to leave. She had to stretch her (metaphorical) wings and explore the other kingdoms. She had to stretch her legs and cross the borders.
So she does, and she started with Taiga.
Perhaps it's in spite of her face - or because of it. She simultaneously wants to wipe it from the earth but also to scar it further, to make it a perfect mesh of rotted flesh scarred beyond all recognition. If she is too ugly to bear, she will be fully ugly. Wretched.
But then again she is fully aware of what it's like to look upon it. To see, from one side, the soft skin of youth, the touches of immortality. To smile, knowing that in her peaceful youth she was still beautiful and charming. But then - the scar.
Maimed.
Maybe it drove her realization. Maybe Beqanna's shifting landscape did. She realized - quite suddenly - that she'd never truly left the Valley. She was born there, she would die there, like her parents.
Not anymore, though. No one was going to die in the Valley. or the Dale. or the Tundra.
And she suddenly realized she did not belong caged in one kingdom, refusing to leave. She had to stretch her (metaphorical) wings and explore the other kingdoms. She had to stretch her legs and cross the borders.
So she does, and she started with Taiga.
THORUNN
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