Seren
The stiffness should have been warning enough, but Seren was not paying attention like she normally did. Only with the darkening and the cold did she realize what thin ice she had strayed onto. Unfortunately the warning did very little to curb the emotions that went off like firecrackers within.
Stiff and with her back ramrod straight, Seren chewed on feelings of indignation, frustration and the general unfairness of it all. A hundred retorts and defenses begged to be uttered, but she bit them back. Sorted through each argument in turn and found them crumbling between her fingers like so much sand.
"I am sorry, Mother. You never treated me like that. I apologize for taking my frustration with Father out on you - it was unfair of me." she said after a long while, and bent her neck, though that too was a little stiff and the heat kept burning in her throat. "I never intended to neglect the task you gave me. I will step away from the others." Though it hurt. She'd be letting Sah down. And Amalia... But she didn't want to be dismissed from her task either.
There was no swallowing the sense of having been set aside by Ronin and Remi, however. Their dismissal, the way they had stepped in and simply taken over still rankled and burned - even as the intense cold made her breath mist and linger in the air.
Stiff and with her back ramrod straight, Seren chewed on feelings of indignation, frustration and the general unfairness of it all. A hundred retorts and defenses begged to be uttered, but she bit them back. Sorted through each argument in turn and found them crumbling between her fingers like so much sand.
"I am sorry, Mother. You never treated me like that. I apologize for taking my frustration with Father out on you - it was unfair of me." she said after a long while, and bent her neck, though that too was a little stiff and the heat kept burning in her throat. "I never intended to neglect the task you gave me. I will step away from the others." Though it hurt. She'd be letting Sah down. And Amalia... But she didn't want to be dismissed from her task either.
There was no swallowing the sense of having been set aside by Ronin and Remi, however. Their dismissal, the way they had stepped in and simply taken over still rankled and burned - even as the intense cold made her breath mist and linger in the air.
The torturous stars are taking every breath I wish I held
The love in my heart is never ending
The love in my heart is never ending
