REXANNA
the chains are broken
All the plans Rexanna has had to speak to this girl about Zariah and the new rule, vanish immediately as the Harpy confirms her suspicions. The pit of her stomach drops, and she hears the disgust, frustration, anger within the girl’s voice. It doesn’t last long, however, the girl begins to shut down in a way and Rexanna refrains from reaching for her. She’s not her mother in this life, but she was in another – another time where she had made so many mistakes. Where she hadn’t been ready for a life like the one she lived in, where Princes with grudges returned to destroy and conquer what they thought was theirs, where falling in love with a King caused her to betray her family.A frown finds her face, and she stumbles to find the words to say. “I’m so sorry.” The first words that left her lips were true, she’s so incredibly sorry about everything she’d done, most of all not even recognizing her. “I’m not… I’m not the same woman, but I have memories of it like Deimos.” She stutters, certain that her closeness with Deimos had gotten her to understand what it was like to be different yet the same. “I know I was horrible mother to you and your brother, and I’m so sorry.” Her arms slacken at her sides, and she looks away from the Harpy, not knowing how to apologize for a different version of herself. She can't say it'll be different, because it already is. The person standing before the girl is not the same that made the same mistakes. What can you even do in that instance?
She begins to try and recall all she remembered about the other life, about her twins and their life before it got flipped upside down.
but are you truly free?
