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Her Hour Upon the Stage (3/4)

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"He didn't give a damn about us. Not until he needed us -- heh. Need?" Purple suffuses sapphire just as a mocking lilt taints her once-wistful tone: "Yeah, I know just what he needed. He needed to make sure someone still cared about his sorry ass. He needed to tell himself that he still had someone twisted round his little finger! He needed--" a starburst of crimson, edged with firey oranges and golds "--to watch my mother make herself sick falling over herself trying to cater to his every whim!"

Blinding light behind her, she spreads her arms wide as if to embrace the bloody blaze -- it floods through spread fingers, blurs their silhouettes together until she and the girl she sprang from appear to be a single form, misshapen and frayed at the edges. Unfortunately, Teddie's glasses don't prove flare-proof; fortunately, the intensity ebbs away, cooling to dull waves of green and blue.

"...I'm so tired. I'm sick of it all. I'm tired of playing the 'dutiful daughter', giving up everything I want to look after them. Thank God he's dead."

"...N-no..."

"And Mom? I wish she'd drop dead, too. Spineless bitch, bending over backwards for him -- how come she never did that for me? Why did we always have to sacrifice -- never him? I gave up the lead role, after working so hard -- and she never even recognized that! They never did!"

Both shake their heads in tandem -- Yumi denying, her double dismissive. Scornful. Amber taints emerald, creeping through the spotlights.

"And then they tell me to 'bear fruit' -- like they even know what that means. Like they haven't kept cutting me down, uprooting me, doing everything in their power to stunt my growth -- but that's all over now. He's dead--" a sick, gleeful grin slices cross her face, spreading with each refrain "--he's dead, dead, dead! At long fucking last, I'm free of that bastard!"

Again she gestures wide and wild, but now a triumphant golden aura surrounds her, and she stands clearly apart from Yumi -- not far enough for them to act, but far enough for Yumi to behold her doppleganger, her own face a mask of horror to match the shadow's cheerful leer.

"And Mom? She's nothing. Without Dad or me, she'll just... fall apart. Like she should've long ago. She doesn't need my help... but..."