EYELASH

By Serebrystaya

All characters copyright Tamora Pierce. No money is being made off of this fic. (As if x3)

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"Daine, aren't you in bed yet?"

The girl frowned as her mother's voice floated through the open door. Bent half double, she stood in front of the small mirror on the kitchen table, dressed in a simple cotton nightgown. Pulling her angry gaze from her angry reflection, she called back impatiently.

"No, Ma, I've an eyelash in my eye."

Turning back from her ma's approaching figure, an eight-year-old Daine returned her concentration to her watering right eye. A lash of pain flicked through it as she winced and blinked, and craned her head to the side. Carefully Sarra instructed her to push it with her eyelids to the corner of the eye, and Daine meekly followed her instructions. She tried, she really did, but it still took her five minutes to pull it up towards her nose. With small, tired fingers, she dragged it out of her reddened eye.

"It's out!" exclaimed Sarra. "Make a wish on it!"

As she stared sullenly at the tiny black hair that had somehow cost her a lot of pain and over ten minutes of her life, all she could wish for at the moment was to not ever have an eyelash in her eye again.

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