Long Ago ~ by SaralynArati

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7 years ago

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"And she blamed my mother and me for Da's absence and his death. Elora harped on it constantly. If we'd been more ruthless, if we'd been willing to do whatever it took to keep him safe, he wouldn't have had to leave. She scorned our love because she couldn't have his. But she looked for him, anyway. Endlessly. Finally Elora had to admit defeat. My sister blamed us for that, too, irrational as it might be. She told us we were dead to her. And then she joined the Union of Vengeance."

7 years ago

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"Then, roughly 700 years ago, he appeared one day. Despite the danger, my mother got pregnant again, and none of us regretted it. Da visited as frequently as he could; maybe that pattern was how he was finally caught. I hope not. However, the last time we saw him was for ten days. Elora was a week old when he had to go." Ynarra's lashes glistened. "She always resented that. My sister was jealous of the decades I had with our father, and it gnawed at her. She became obsessed with Alu Sages."

7 years ago

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"For a century before the Scourge, we lived peacefully, and for the most part quite happily, my parents and I. Then it began, however, the running, the hiding, the fear. We split up; sometimes two of us together, sometimes each alone, but we would meet whenever we could. The Alu Sages were hit particularly hard, and Da left us for long periods, for our own safety and his. They dwindled to the point almost of extinction, and we believed he was dead. He may, in fact, have been the last."

7 years ago

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"And, it's just in you to be merciful," Marea finished. There was a short pause, yet it wasn't an awkward silence. "It's none of my business," said Mark, then, "but I'd like to know, anyway. What made her turn in the first place?" "I can tell you what prompted her to choose to become a Dark Sister. Why she fell further into evil... I can only guess," Ynarra temporized. Her eyes half closed in recollection of times long past. "My father, and Elora's father as well, was an Alu Sage."

7 years ago

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"Gran," Marea ventured, "you realize, the Old Ways... they really offer Elora a very slim chance, assuming they're implemented by both Orders." "I know, dear," her grandmother confirmed, sighing, "but it's the only chance she has, and... I have to try. Can you understand that?" The young Witch thought about the Yeled she hadn't killed at the river Tower, the Yaldah she'd forced to jump out of the window rather than electrocute. "Yes, of course, I can. You love her. Some things are simple."

7 years ago