Fates Redeeming Ways
VI
~*Past reflects personality
So I have a right to be sad
Unfortunately,
All I seem to feel is mad*~
*Hitomi*
I was so glad to finally be left alone for a while. It gave me lots of time to think about everything that had happened. So first, I go to see the gypsy. Second, I get my hell of a fortune told to me. Third, the gypsy lady disappears and everything she said and everything I had seen came true. Fourth, I'm stuck with royalty that knew my mother somehow, and everyone hates me! What the hell did I ever do to deserve all this?!
A light rapping on my door brought me out of my thoughts.
"Go away! I don't need anything!" I hollered. A sharp woman's voice replied instantly.
"Well, I was going to come in to talk with you because I might be the only one who can relate to what you're going through right now but no, you blow me off and yell before I even get a chance to walk in the damn door! You know what, fine then! Be like that! I'm leaving now!"
I waited probably five minutes before speaking. "You can come in."
"Thank-you!" The feline woman whose name I had yet to know, waltzed into my room looking a little nervous.
"Master Van told me to come speak with you. He wanted to know how you were doing."
"Ooh, not Master Van!" I mocked. "Who's he, the next king to Fanelia?"
"He might be. It depends on his brother's success of failure. I wouldn't mock either. He's the same age as you."
"The same age? And he could become king?!" Now this was . . . different.
"Settle down." I could see her tail whipping the air behind her dress. "If his brother were to fail, it would be a great loss for the Fanel family, and to Fanelia. Master Van would have to wait another year before attempting the inauguration."
An eighteen-year-old king? It wasn't my say in their tradition but that was certainly different.
"Master Van is certain that his brother will succeed. He waited an extra four years to be fully prepared."
"So that would make him twenty-two right now?" I interrupted.
She nodded, taking a seat beside me and beginning to fiddle with her fingers on her lap, she continued.
"I heard about everything that happened to you in Irini." She paused as my eyes misted. "When I was five, my house caught on fire and my parents and two sisters were killed. I was the only one who escaped the house alive." Her fists clenched on top of her thighs. "Since there was a lack of people that were my race in Irini, I was sent off to Fanelia to stay with the King, Queen and their two children. Why, I still don't know to this day, but it's home here now. I love Fanelia like it was my first homeland." I listened to her every word. Each affected me greatly.
She understood . . . She knew exactly how I felt. But . . .
"It's different . . ."
"Hmm?" She turned to me.
"I . . ." Not being able to hold back the tears that burned behind my eyes, I let them fall freely. "I knew that . . ." Standing up, I paced the length of my room while speaking. "The day of the night that Irini was burned, I went to see a gypsy to get my fortune read--just for fun. You could say that through seeing my fate, she saw Irini's destruction. I thought . . . I thought what I had seen was a vision." I stopped, raising a hand to my head and the other on my hip. "Apparently these 'visions' that I have predict the not-so-distant future. I saw Irini being invaded! It was burned in my dream! Then, I found out it was a vision and everything changed. Every other time I saw it was so much more intense. All the feelings were strange and foreign." I paused momentarily to see what the cat-woman was possibly thinking. All I could decipher from her eyes was pain and hope.
"You sound like you loved Irini as much as I did. If not, more. I can't imagine what it's like
now . . ."
"You don't want to. Trust me." I forced a smile. "You haven't told me your name yet."
"It's Merle."
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