~~~~Flinging Arrows~~~~

Even slamming the door shut left her feeling more exposed than she would have liked given her current set of circumstances. She had taken to her room and no force on earth could have pried her from her only sanctuary. Quickly absorbing her surroundings her eyes fell upon the heavy drapes pulled wide flooding the room in daylight. That simply would not do- not today. Crossing the room she reached for the feel of raw silk and did not stop her assault until the heavy fabric fell and drowned the room in blessed darkness. My-oh-my that was much better indeed.

The thoughts running through her head needed to ferment. They needed time to finally settle and give her the opportunity to view them with clear eyes. Daylight would only prologue the process, what she needed was quite and to find her inner stillness- perhaps then her initial perception would alter. All she felt now was angry and once again tossed aside without reason or explanation. All she thought now was one word and it hadn't stopped running through her mind since he had casually dismissed her and treated her as if she had never even mattered in the least.

Coward.

She didn't like him anymore- he was nothing but a trying waste of space and yet she was unable to shake his slight. He had transformed before her eyes and his damage had been inflicted with exacting precision. Nothing other than a sordid twist of fate remained to remind her she had never said goodbye- perhaps it was easier that way. Maybe his sting of casual dismissal would be more easily suffered than she initially thought- perhaps her silence would say the words she would never be given the chance to speak. If nothing else she would remain fixed, sure of her footing and refusing to look back on just anther one of God's own mistakes. Only the four walls were present when she finally spoke the words she needed- the words that would purge the tragedy from day to day existence. Buried deep within the silken tapestry her final litany wove its way around the threads and became bound to secrets she would never otherwise share. There in the stillness of the room she said her goodbye and as was fitting- no one had been there to hear it.