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conceal, don't feel [kaj] - Aleta - 08-06-2016 Once upon a time, there was a little lightning princess born to a beautiful woman and a gallant knight. The girl was not perfect, but neither were her parents - but what they lacked in perfection, they made up for in love. They lived in a beautiful kingdom, where the princess's parents raised her to be warm and kind to everyone she met, and they all lived happily ever after. In case you didn't realize, that was most certainly not how the story went. Reality, as is often the case, was so much more complex than any fairy tale or bedtime story. The beautiful woman did not love the gallant knight; in fact, the woman was not so beautiful as she might had been in her youth, and the knight was perhaps not so gallant as his daughter believed him to be. Their daughter was not as much a princess as she was a lost girl, stuck forever in a burning Neverland from which she could not escape. Try as she might, it seemed that she was destined to a life of solitude. Her mother did not want her, and she didn't want to forever bother her father, and so she had ended up alone. The girl was returning home from a trip to the Dragon's Throat, where she had finally - finally - found her mother. And then her mother had (thanks to Gaucho's request) introduced her to her half-siblings. There had been so many of them, overwhelming the girl (particularly as they were all a bit more physical than she was comfortable with), who quickly excused herself to return home. Her mother had promised to visit soon, but she was suddenly a foreign mare, someone that Aleta no longer knew or related to. And so she had fled, angry because her mother had another family and hurt because it was one that she clearly preferred. And what was so wrong with Kaj and Aleta? What had they ever done to deserve such treatment? "Daddy?" the girl whispered as she crossed into the herdland, the sound of the falls drowning out her soft plea. "Talk." @Kaj - here, have an upset babbeh RE: conceal, don't feel [kaj] - Kaj - 08-21-2016
@Aleta RE: conceal, don't feel [kaj] - Aleta - 08-25-2016 Though Kaj worried incessantly about the little lightning child, his story was not to end in the tragedy that had plagued Quilyan and Resplendence. Yes, little Rue had wandered away, never to be seen again - but she had been a mere babe. Aleta was older than the prince's daughter, more knowledgable in the ways of the world thanks to a father who was actually present. Kaj had taught her all that she knew, and she had utilized all of his teachings on her errand to the Dragon's Throat. Of course, all of this might have been avoided if she had simply asked her father to come with her... but, for whatever reason, hers had been a quest that she was determined to complete on her own. Besides, can you imagine if Kaj had shown up on Gaucho's doorstep with his and Sohalia's daughter? In any case, she had returned home after a relatively short time period, having excused herself after the revelation that she had many siblings in a family that she would never know. It wasn't that her mother had asked her to leave; in fact, Sohalia had begged Aleta to stay, if only for a little while. But the little lightning girl was already gone. From the beginning, Aleta had been a mistake, and afterthought, a part of a family that was never meant to exist. And Sohalia had made it abundantly clear that she had chosen the Throat, had chosen Gaucho, had chosen Zenobia and Rhoa and Ivezho and Hawke and Aelin and Vinati... she had been choosing them for months. Aleta was not a fool. She knew when she was unwanted. What she hadn't expected was for it to hurt so much. She had always been a child of calm logic, interested in fact above all. Until it had been proven that she meant little and less to her mother, she had clung to the frail hope that Sohalia would return, that they would all be together. She had never been fool enough to think that her parents were in love, but she had thought they were friends. They could have been comfortable, could have been happy. Despite her reservations, she had waited and wanted and hoped. Well, she wouldn't be making that mistake again. Suddenly, her father appeared, blowing his soft air-kisses beside her muzzle, a gesture that she returns in a rather subdued manner. Her lower lip trembled as he exclaimed over her, and she turned her round, tearful eyes upwards to see his worried face. Without warning, she burst into tears, the hot liquid streaming down her cheeks burning against her sensitive skin. "I w-went to find M-mother," she choked out between sobs. "And s-she was i-in the... the D-dragon's Throat, and -" So violently was she shaking that her words were almost incomprehensible. "S-she doesn't want to b-be with us h-here b-because... b-because... s-she has another f-family," Aleta wailed, finally falling into inconsolable sobs as she stood as close to her father as she could without actually touching him. "Talk." @Kaj RE: conceal, don't feel [kaj] - Kaj - 09-16-2016
@Aleta damn it tag RE: conceal, don't feel [kaj] - Aleta - 09-28-2016 If she was being honest with herself, Aleta wasn't truly upset that her mother had another family. After all, she had not been raised to believe in that fabled true love that seemed to leave other girls her age sighing and longing for their white knight to come and save them. No, the little lightning girl had been blessed with parents who were merely friends - an oddity, given the outcome of their little tryst - and who had raised her together, each loving the other in an entirely aromantic, but no less passionate, way. That Sohalia had lived and loved before and after Kaj and Aleta was not particularly surprising. But the Transcended had abandoned them, and that was the part that stung. It was not a question of Kaj's ability to fill the void left by an absent mother, for he was all that she could imagine a father being and then some. To Aleta, Kaj was the sun and the moon, the stars that guided her through the darkest night. But Sohalia had been a soothing presence, the cooling balm to the burning prickles that assaulted the girl with the slightest breeze. Sometimes, a girl just wanted her mother. Her sobs began to subside to sniffles as the Aurelight began to speak, coaxing her out of her heartbreak to stand once more on solid (logical) ground. The girl could tell that the stallion wanted desperately to embrace her, to shield her from all the hurt that the world could possibly throw at her, to steal away her pain and hide her somewhere it could never find her again. However much she might appreciate the thought, she loved him all the more for allowing her the space she needed to stay comfortable. Though her affliction appeared to be fading with age, she still didn't want to be touched any more than necessary. "You didn't know either?" she sniffed, her tear-filled eyes turning up to his. The little lightning girl didn't know if her father's surprise made it better or worse - at least she wasn't alone, but wouldn't Sohalia's betrayal of Kaj be worse, somehow, for all that the two of them had shared? The anger the girl had felt began to ebb, giving way to a bone-deep exhaustion that threatened to consume her. Kaj's words had the desired effect; Aleta's tears finally dried, and life began to flicker once more within her bicolored eyes. The lightning that flickered angrily along her neck dimmed and lessened until only the faintest of sparks remained. "Talk." @Kaj - ick this is not good. ;_; |