[Training] Beautiful flaws

Maea Big dreamers shoot for open skies Her hand slipped, and the beveling tool scratched a jagged line over the surface that Maea had been so proud of. Mournfully she touched the ugly scar, regretting her lapse in koncentration, but quickly returned focus to Sam. "You're Evie's brother? I mean... I knew she had one, but the way she spoke about you... I had the impression of a complete stuck up who did everything to please her parents and nothing for her... That's how she told things at least. I never would have guessed." Sam was nothing like that in her eyes. On the contrary; here he was teaching a half blind farmer how to make books, offering up precious materials and time without actually needing to do so... It was kind, and generous, and... nothing at all like his sister. Red hair was not so uncommon, and her eyes being what they were... Maea just never made the connection. As for Amalia... "We... I used to play with them as a child. I was sick often, Amalia's mom was a healer, maybe you knew that? Well, she tended to me as I didn't have a mother, and brought Amalia along so she wouldn't be alone. And Ama brought Evie, because I was too sick to play Most of the time. So I watched them play with each other and with my brother, while I was stuck in bed. Drinking foul tonics and wearing smelly poultices." She looked off towards the window as if to gaze out of it, found it covered and sighed. "I don't think any of us were happy with the arrangement. Amalia thought I stole her mother, and I was jealous because they did things I was not allowed to do. I guess it still feels like that in many ways..." Amalia was attuned, favored by the gods they all loved, while Maea was abandoned. And Evie had her skill with herbs, had carved out a nishe for herself without caring what anyone else thought... Maea shrugged. Admiring people whom you could not befriend just made it more bitter.