Feeling Very Small ~ by SaralynArati

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Story continues on this doll: httpwww.dolldivine.com/Erte-Elegance/SaralynArati-2948409

10 years ago

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"I will tell them," Syura concedes, "but I don't think they will be willing to put you in danger." "I know, but... if there is ANYTHING I can do... Being here, I feel very helpless, very useless," the girl does not quite complain. "I don't feel that much more useful here," says her mother, and her voice is nearly back to normal. Syeha smiles just because it is. "It is so frustrating!" mother and daughter both comment as one. And for the first time in a long while, the witch-woman laughs.

10 years ago

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After a while, the mother sniffs and asks, "So, what will you do now, since you can no longer ignore your magic?" Syeha answers, "I will learn what I can from Moon Shadow. And then... these are lovely people, but I think I would like to come home. Maybe I could learn from you for a while?" "When it is safe for you, I would like that very much," Syura replies. "If I can help... if Kanu and Summer Wind think I wouldn't be in the way... well, I can leave immediately and return for a while."

10 years ago

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"Why could you not have come to me? Or to your father?" Syura asks finally. "We have never put any pressure on you to be like us..." "Because, Ma Ayah," Syeha says in a low voice, as if it is a new discovery, and at least in part it is, "coming to you would have made it real." Once again she repeats, "I am so sorry!" The girl is crying silently now, but then her feelings have always fallen easily from her eyes. "Oh, my baby, don't cry," soothes Syura, but her eyes are overflowing as well.

10 years ago

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"I wanted to go on being like I had always been, even though I wanted to grow up. I wanted to be normal. Or alternately, I could have dealt with being magical. But to be something in between... I couldn't cope, so I pretended that if I ignored it, it would go away," Syeha explains. "I am abnormal to you?" Syura asks, wounded so easily in her exhaustion. "No, Ma Ayah, you are wonderful! And you shine so brilliantly! You are something I could never hope to be..." her daughter trails off.

10 years ago

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"Ma Ayah? My mother? I... I am so sorry!" the girl begins. Syura looks tired, as though she has spent the night awake. "It is all right, my baby. I just... did not see that you were not my baby anymore... not in time." "No, Ma Ayah, it is not all right," Syeha continues, feeling very small and sad. "I am still, and I will always be, even though I am not, do you see?" and she gulps back tears already. "I... my magic... I didn't want to see it, didn't want it to be sometimes oddly there."

10 years ago