OPTICAL ILLUSION :: private

[Pele N. F. I.]

STAR CHILD

Pele, she had a heart too big for her body. A heart worn on her sleeve and shattered almost as often as she lost feathers. One that, had been a little shattered when she first figured out she'd been abandoned. When she saw others with a mother and a father, two fathers, two mothers. There were always two. When she'd questioned it? No name was given to her, only that one of her last names was his.

Heartbreak, slowly turned into resentment as one by one, her family disappeared either willingly or otherwise. Her eyes reflected parents who left, the whiteness of her fur, a mother who kept secrets from her.

When things started going downhill, she'd found family in Margy, Suite and their children, later she'd found a real father figure in Cooper. A family she'd found all her own, and though she was little, and broken, they accepted her, loved her and promised they'd never leave.

She'd become who her sister once was lately, holed up in her room reading and reading. One after the next after the next. 'Take me somewhere else.' 'Somewhere far, far away.' 'Show me it all turns out okay.'

'I want a happy ending too.'

It was never enough, no matter how many worlds she immersed herself in, no matter how many characters she befriended, cried with, laughed with. It was never enough, there was still something missing. Even when she talked with family, something felt hollow.

And then Zjarr came, and the hollowness seemed to grow.

When she'd seen him on the border and announce that he'd been looking for her, even though he knew exactly where she was, everything had snapped.

All the hollowness inside had become anger, burning as bright as the flames she'd one day produce. Every emotion came out in words sharper than the blades he sold.

And now? Now she lay in her room, hiding the tears that the burst had caused. Muffling choked sobs with pillows and blankets.

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