17 - Airborne

Her name was like the sky.

In this world she's supposed to be free, have choices, to soar overhead. She does not have multiple children to feed. She does not have to watch them work their fingers to the bone and yet and yet -

Her mother dictates her choices like before. Or well, she certainly tries. She defies in every little way she can and it hurts, it stings, her own children would never - but they were good and dutiful. She could never imagine them doing such in a world where every wrong choice meant death.

That just wasn't the case here.

Her mother just didn't understand, Kie mused.