Hiding behind a Mask
Look at me and what do you see
Do you see sorrow or grief?
Longing for better?
The hope that someone might love you?
No you do not see it
Why you ask
Because it's not proper
To wear you emotions on your sleeve
A small tear
In the middle of the night
An average girl
A lonesome cry
Shining hazel eyes
Grief written clearly in them
What happened?
Will never be known to the outside world
For behind a stone mask
Emotions dwell
Rising and falling
Never being released on the outside world
Hidden forever behind a mask
Kel lay on her side on the bed as she thought about her life and all she had been through. The rise and fall of Haven, the lose of first love, the secret crushes, and the disappointment of those around her.It never failed that what she most desired slipped right through her hands like water. Shifting sands of fate, the running water of time. Would it never end?
Today a man came to the castle needing to see her. When she had talked to the dust traveled, road weary man she was frightened by what he had told her. Her future was marked with trials by the gods and if she passed, she would become something greater then a mortal. So the man had said. Her thoughts attached themselves to what he had said, the words forever running over and over in her mind.
"The gods have told me of your future, the trials you must face, and what you shall become if you pass." The man sat on the chair by her desk, not shifting from the rigid position in which he sat upon the wooden seat. "They have told me to find you, to tell you of this. You will fall in battle soon, but do not worry. The enemy to the north shall capture you, torture you, and try to make you betray those you care for and your homeland."
The weary man paused in his telling as he drank gratefully from a water flask at his waist, brown eyes closed.
"At that time, you shall be given a gift that will allow you to escape from this tortue and come back to your land. With this gift, comes great responsibility." He paused again to let the information sink into Kel's mind. Her curt nod told the man to go on."The gift will be contained within you, to be passed on when you give birth. Your gift will be used by the ruling monarchs to keep the land in order. Do you understand?"
Kel looked up, trying to decide to believe the man or not. She tried to take the life in which she lived now and add this new information to it. The Scanran war still raged, and she would soon join those fighting on the front. In the end, Kel believed the man and took to heart his warnings.
"I do understand, and shall take what the gods are telling me to heart." The man stood up and left the room, never to be seen by the people of the castle ever again.
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