Evolution
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Dual Persona
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Night and day were once the same to me. They both just were different ways of showing the passage of time. Those meaningless, predictable days, Time was Life, and Life was Time. There was no divergence, no line, between the two. I lived day-by-day, learning things that did not matter outside my short, sheltered life, but they mattered to me because I was told that they mattered.
…I wasted so much time…
Inside the castle, those things were the center of my life. They were seeded, protected and pruned by Mother. They flourished and blossomed because of Mother. My progress in my royal life gave her pride, and her pride gave me definition, however shallow it proved to be in retrospect. It had to be the only thing that mattered.
It took me ten years to realize I was wasting my time.
Within a few days of breaking down those castle walls, the ones in my mind began to follow. A few days washed away all that training—that pruning. I think on that idea with a newer, wiser mind.
I only began to realize my potential after evolving into—but not really becoming—someone new. Dagger wasn't a new persona—she was the beginning of a new, wiser, shinier Garnet. A Garnet that glowed beyond the bounds of shallow definition as a princess. It isn't even fair to think of that new name in the third person. I am Garnet; I am Dagger—two names for the same being, the same mind, and the same mistakes.
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Please review. I'm really only just getting back into Fanfiction after a long (rather pointless) hiatus. I would really love some feedback, positive or negative. Whichever floats your boat is fine.
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