Time ... Challenge #170
Time could be such a double-edged sword. This was something she had learned at an early age. Time could be so very short, and by the same token it could seem like forever.
She peered out the window as she watched the coach drive away from the Keep. She was silent as the tears slipped down her face. It had ended and not at all like she had once dreamed that it would when she had been a child. She had thought that with time, perhaps things would change.
She had been wrong.
Her blood relatives could no more accept who and what she was now than they had been able to allow themselves to when she was a child in their care. Then they had allowed themselves to made to believe that she was mentally or emotionally disturbed in some way. It kept her out of their way and kept her from embarassing them.
Now?
Now, they believed her to be insane and her grandmother had called her "monstrous".
Time hadn't made any of that change and it hadn't made the hurt from them not loving her enough go away.
What time had done, was help shape her into the Queen she now was.
The Queen that would do anything she felt she had to do to protect her family and those she loved.
As Alexandra had just found out and paid a painful price.
Time could definitely be someone's friend as well as their enemy.
With her relatives, with her Grandmother, time was the only thing that had changed.
Muse: Jaenelle Angelline SaDiablo
Fandom: "The Black Jewels" trilogy; Misc. Books
Words: 261
She peered out the window as she watched the coach drive away from the Keep. She was silent as the tears slipped down her face. It had ended and not at all like she had once dreamed that it would when she had been a child. She had thought that with time, perhaps things would change.
She had been wrong.
Her blood relatives could no more accept who and what she was now than they had been able to allow themselves to when she was a child in their care. Then they had allowed themselves to made to believe that she was mentally or emotionally disturbed in some way. It kept her out of their way and kept her from embarassing them.
Now?
Now, they believed her to be insane and her grandmother had called her "monstrous".
Time hadn't made any of that change and it hadn't made the hurt from them not loving her enough go away.
What time had done, was help shape her into the Queen she now was.
The Queen that would do anything she felt she had to do to protect her family and those she loved.
As Alexandra had just found out and paid a painful price.
Time could definitely be someone's friend as well as their enemy.
With her relatives, with her Grandmother, time was the only thing that had changed.
Muse: Jaenelle Angelline SaDiablo
Fandom: "The Black Jewels" trilogy; Misc. Books
Words: 261