Author's note Draft 2
If the story does not say draft 2, it's not the final draft.
I was asked on one of the other websites I post on about what is the family roles in the Jackson family are.
My answer is this…
The Scapegoat of the family is Halona, Lynda, and Louise. Halona for Louis, I will write more detail into that later.
Lynda for the family because the way Lynda wanted to live life was seen as unhealthy. Because of that she feels rejected and isolated by her family. The constantly questioning and ways of trying to fix it made her feel this way and made Lynda cling on to Louise more. Also, Lynda is always pitted against Louise in most things and falls second to Louise to Louise most of the time.
Louise for Halona and later on Ista. Halona hates Louise, so she's always the reason for the problems that happen in the family. Ista starts thinking of Louise as the reason for the issue in the family because of the things Louise gets up to.
The Caretaker of the family is Luthor and Neil.
Luthor for all his siblings. Because he stepped up as a parenting figure when their parents were not around. He was always a helping hand to his siblings. Try to stop the family meltdowns by helping resolve familial issues.
Neil for Lynda. In this last arc you can see Neil stepping up to be the pillar of support for Lynda. He took time to understand Lynda's problem then he found a solution for it. Also made Lynda not feel as rejected by her family by getting them to understand her difficulty. As well, he spent time with just her and not Louise.
The Hero of the family is Luthor and Halona.
Luthor as he points out on his birthday thoughts takes on the appearance of being the model of success for his family to the outside world.
Halona do something similar for the Cypress Community.
The Mascot of the family is Neil.
Neil for the family. Neil gives a sense of humor in serious situations. He always steps up when situations become tense and violent and tries to fuse it with humor. He distracts the family from their issues as he showed doing, when he distracts Luthor and Lynda from Lynda's issue.
The Lost Child of the family is Lynda.
Lynda feels ignored, neglected, and scared to be herself. She is described as a loner and has terrible social skills and self-esteem. She uses Louise as an example for most things because she can't define what is truly normal.
The Golden Child of the family is Louise.
Louise gets most of the love within the family. Because of the high expectations from her parents of her past life Louise subconsciously holes herself above others. Louise was molded into being the perfect daughter by her mother and her past life. It was not until later in her first life that she started to disobey her mother in attempt to individuate herself from her past life mother.
Because she died in the middle of this stage of her life she carried on the trace into her new life. As is shown in her disobeying her parents even if now it's subconsciously.
One of the main reasons why Louise is The Golden Child is because she gives most of the siblings and their father something they wish for. For Louis, he wishes for a daughter he didn't have to truly worry about. For Luthor it was somebody to see him and his wants. For Neil, it was a person to entertain him essentially a toy. For Lynda, it was something similar to Neil but essentially different because of her family expectations.
The Switchboard of the family is Neil.
Neil is usually the person with all the information. He keeps track of what everybody is doing in the family most of the time. When important things are happening that involve the family he's typically the one that will tell everybody else. Neil frequently understands the information he gets and decides what he should do with it.
It can also be said that Neil is the Truth Teller in the family because he often reflects the situation of the family, picks the right moments to relay information, and makes sure the family or the family member do not avoid the truth no matter how hurtful it is.
The Power Broker of the family is Louis and Ista.
Louis is at the top of the family hierarchy. He's the one whom is in charge of family safety and security.
Ista does something similar just with the community.
The Thinker of the family is Louise.
Louise provides an object and reason to focus on for the family in certain situations. Louise's strength is being able to see situations in a logical way and think of a way to fix them. However, Louise finds it is hard to mostly connect with the other people in her family members.
Now I want to get on to the topic of why Halona is the Scapegoat for Louis because there's a lot more to it.
Halona is his scapegoat is because of Ista mostly. Ista lied to him for most of the beginning of the relationship. Louis never subconsciously forgave her for that. Then he went off to war not that many years into their marriage. During World War II there was this ideal of women stepping more into the men's world. Men who were in charge did not like this, so to deal with this they came up with, so many different allegations to make sure females didn't get a foothold inside this world of power as it can be described.
One of the things they came up with was telling the soldiers that while they were the way in war, their wives were being adulteress or less formal cheating on them.
So not knowing Ista all that well and already being lied to about a lot of important things or not being told about important things he assumed that Ista might have done that. It did not help that now he knows there were a lot of unfamiliar men around his wife while he was away. It certainly did not help that Halona did not look, nothing like him or have his coloring in looks. Unlike at the time Luthor who was a male copy of his Ista with Louis coloring.
Now you have a doubting Louis. A Louis who just came back from a war with a lot of emotional trauma.
But Louis tries to act normal or how he was before the war. But he needs something to blame for all the problems he came home to. So why not the person that you already had doubts about.
Louis somewhat realizes he should not do this to a child that is not to blame for what he doubts is his. So he tries to act the same with Halona as he does with his other children, even if he does not do a great job.
Foreshadowing = 22
Life Worth 0
XXX-XXXVII
XXX (Saturday of December 29, 1957. Alleyway . New Orleans, United States of America)
It was just a man in black. For some reason I couldn't move. I felt like I was in the middle of a sea with calm waters, but I was drowning in it.
I was scared… No terrified. I was going to move from my spot, but I can feel myself gasping for air instead. I couldn't get enough of it.
No matter how hard I try I couldn't move a muscle. I was scared stiff.
Then he started walking towards me.
He wasn't walking at inhuman speeds, but it felt like that. The closer he walked to me the more panic I got.
It felt like this creeping feeling of pain taking over.
I couldn't figure out why I was thinking this way.
Five feet away I was still petrify. I began to shake like a leaf.
Four feet away I try moving my feet. I can feel myself starting to hyperventilate.
Three feet away I try moving my arms. Why does it feel like I'm chained down to an anchor?
Two feet away I tried to get up. The feeling of being on a ship trying to walk during a storm came to me.
One foot away I knew I was dead.
"Hey brat...are you an idiot" Was the first thing he said to me as he slammed his foot into my side.
For the life of me I do not know why I answered "Noo"
"To you think I really wanted you to answer my question" He said while grabbing a fist full of my hair.
He started to drag me to the alley wall. I was so scared of this man that I did not try to break free from him.
He laid me against the wall. Then he started to ruthlessly kick me.
I didn't even try to stop the kicks. Why couldn't I move I requested of myself, but the thought slipped away from my mind, like a drop in the ocean of pain clouding my mind.
It went on for a while until he stopped.
"Do you know why I'm beating you right now?" the man asks as he stoops to my level.
He grabbed my hair again and made me look him in the eyes. "Hey wake up" He commanded.
"I'm beating you because you did something idiotic" I couldn't even follow what he just said.
"And you know you might be thinking why should I care if a total stranger sees me doing something idiotic" He commented to me. I was starting to be able to follow along with what he's saying now.
"It was because I saw potential that day you stole all that food"
Huh?
"Surprise... you thought nobody knew it was you. Huh,"he said with so much glee in his voice that made me shiver.
He got closer to me. His face was near my ear." You know I've been watching you since that day. The fabric shops, the voodoo telling, and now the hospital." He whispered in a hypnotizing voice that terrified me more.
He moved away from my ear." Oh, the hospital" he announced it like he was speaking to an audience, and he was the host keeping their attention.
"The way you execute your plans with that friend of yours was very good for a novice." He claimed.
Then he slammed my head into the wall." But that doesn't mean you should get cocky enough to go after something like a hospital." he said with this dry tone.
"But you know what I think. I think you need a teacher. I think you need somebody to guide you down this path you already began… and that teacher is going to be me"
XXXI (Tuesday, of December 31 Shed. New Orleans, United States of America)
Waking up in the cold makes me wish I when home. But I require time to think about what I'm going to do. What are my steps?
Getting out of my cluster blankets I scratched my sore muscles. That man sure did a number on me. Now looking in the daylight and where he hit me I could see the bruise marking my body.
I could tell the marks wouldn't go away for a while.
I looked over to my bike and wondered if it would be safe to ride it today. So I grabbed it and walked out of the shed making my direction to Andrei's house.
Luthor Pov
Why is she not back yet I thought. I'd look at Dad who was pacing around the living room. The radio hasn't reported that the police have caught anybody yet, so we notice she's still safe.
So why didn't she ain't home yet?
Grabbing my jacket I told him I was off. There's one place she might be.
Louise Pov
Making it to Andrei's house was a little hard. I was lucky today to see somebody hanging out their clothes to dry. I stole a purple jacket that was large enough to cover my body, so nobody could see my black clothes.
When I got to Andrei's house I was glad to see that he was there safe. He told me his father was mad, but he was grateful for the medicine. He told me it was the medicine exact thing he needed for his mom to keep her calm. He asked me what I was going to do.
I decided then and there that I wouldn't yet tell him about the man in black.
I will tell him another time. I did not want to bring down his mood. When I turned my bike to leave I saw someone on the rooftops and I knew it was time to go home.
XXXII (Wednesday, of January 1st home . New Orleans, United States of America)
I took as long as I could going home yesterday. By the time I got home everybody was too tired to say anything about what I did.
Louis told us that we all would talk about it in the morning.
So there we were all sitting in the living room waiting for someone to start the appending conversation.
It was Lynda surprisingly who started the conversation by asking me if what I got was worth it.
I was surprised but then I wasn't. Lynda and I spent the last 6 years together, so I would think she knew me best.
With a gentle smile I told her it was.
After that Louis bought out the bag of medicine I gave to him last night. That this will be helpful to the community, so my punishment will not be as great as it should have been.
He told me that from now on I will not be able to go anywhere without Luthor or Neil with me. As I wouldn't be giving an allowance until my birthday. That I will be taking up any extra char when I'm free. As I will be spending all my time with him and Ista. As I will be helping out the community members. That I was bound to the community land.
Now, I'll be treated as a prisoner.
I got up from where I was sitting. I went straight to my room having nothing to say to them.
I sit in my room in silence for the rest of the day... Just Thinking.
Ista Pov
"Do you think that was enough to teach her a lesson?" I ask Louis.
"No,...but it will make her think about consequences." Louis told me.
XXXIII (Saturday, of January 4th home. New Orleans, United States of America)
"Neil I need you to come with me today" I asked him while he was laying on the living room couch carving a small block of wood.
"Mmm... I'm busy, why don't we ask Luthor to go with you" Neil suggested.
"Because what I'm about to do can get me in a lot of trouble. And I know you can keep it a secret for a while." I pleased him.
Taking note of how I ask. Neil set up and put his full attention on me, and he commanded me to start speaking about what trouble I have gotten myself into.
Neil Pov
As I stood next to Louise telling Andrei about the trouble she got herself into I couldn't help me mad.
That some man took advantage of my sister. That he didn't give her much of a choice about what she was going to do.
Louis Pov
"Uncle Louis" screamed the little girl that threw herself into my arms.
"Little Charlotte look how big you grow" I told the little girl that I settled back on the ground.
"If I'm bigger then how am I still little?" Charlotte remarked.
"Well you will always be little to me" I told her.
"Louis stop teasing my daughter." Eli said in a chatting voice.
"Hey Eli" I would ask him while watching Charlotte run to her father.
Eli picked her up and put her on his hip. "What are you doing here Louis?"
"I need a favor." I said.
"A favor" he commented to himself.
"Yeah Luther needs a job" I told him. Seeing the look on his face that tells me to keep going I add on "And I don't want him to get underpaid if he gets one of the jobs they have out there right now."
"Isn't he supposed to be going to college?" Eli ask
"He's not going with how the family is right now" I answered.
"I see... I'll have to think of what I could give him and come back to me in another four days" Eli offers.
Louise Pov
As Neil, Andrei and I walk to the meeting spot that the man in Black wanted. I couldn't help but think back to the deal we made.
*Flashback starts*
"You know I think it's a miracle you and your friend haven't been caught yet" He said as he was starting to stand up.
"But that probably has to do with all that potential I saw in you Louise" He professed to me while pitching his arms up like a statue of Jesus.
I was surprised that he knew my name.
"Ho...how did you know my name?" I asked of him.
"Oh that's simple sweetheart is very easy to follow you to your home... Got to say I would never have thought of you living in the Bayou with the way you speak."He revealed nonchalantly but when you look into his eyes. You can see he is getting off on the terror I hold of him telling me this.
"You finally understand, huh?" He commented. "Now this is the deal. I will not tell the police about you and your friend, and you will become my apprentice." He proposed.
Flashback ends*
We were finally at the meeting spot with the man in black sitting in front of us.
"I see that you brought people with you... doesn't matter" he said.
"First of all my name is Talia... and I want you to remember everything I am about to say cuz I will not repeat." the newly named Talia said.
"I will be teaching you the art of smuggling. The definition of smuggling is the illegal movement of goods into or out of the country."He paused to see if we were following along.
"Before I have you do the fine art of smuggling. I'm going to have two different types of classes. One class where I lecture you on all the things you need to know and a physical class when I teach you how to do everything you need to know."He paused.
"In addition to that there are different stages of your apprenticeship with me.
They're apprenticing or level one of the stages again with Learners where you learn how to do things and all the basics that goes with it. Assistant where I bring you alone to do an activity where you will help me with the knowledge you learn. Then Beginner when you start doing small jobs by yourself did I give you.
The next stage is Journeyman or level 2. This stage begins with Advanced where you start doing bigger jobs by yourself that come from me. Then they're Practitioners, where people start calling you for jobs. It's also the stage where I stop giving you jobs. The last is Associate where you do a job and your plan becomes useless, and you have to make a plan on the spot, and then you have to do this a hundred times for different jobs.
Now, in this final stage of apprenticeship you're not going to be learning from me anymore. You'll be on your own. This is when you could call yourself a Master or level three. This stage starts with the position of Expert. This is when you know your shit and not a lot of people questioning you on it. And last but not least, Trainer is when you could teach someone the shit I'm teaching you and they will get it." Talia finished his long winded speech.
I will not lie that was a lot to take in and I hope the other two remembered but I couldn't.
"The last thing we're going to be talking about today before I have you leave and meet me back on the 6th. Is what it means to be a smuggler in the underworld."
XXXIV (Monday, of January 6st 1958. Talia training spot . New Orleans, United States of America)
"I see that you brought them again Mm" Talia commented.
"Well today lesson is a physical lesson. You guys will be learning lock picking" He informed us while dying us to an area where he had three sets of six different locks set up.
I took note that he expected me to bring Neil and Andrei with me.
"Louise I checked by Sunday you'll be able to unlock all the locks by lock picking" He said singling me out. Not giving Andrei or Neil the same task. Did he do that because I'm his apprentice?
But what he said was more important. He wants me to learn how to lockpicking all the different locks by Sunday. He gave me an impossible task.
"Don't worry we're going to start with an easy one today and work you up to the harder ones. You can bring the locks you have trouble with home." He said after watching me squirm for a few minutes.
"From easiest to hardest is the knob lock, deadbolt locks, cam locks, padlocks, mortise lock, keypad lock." And with that Talia started his lesson.
By the end of the week I was able to successfully unlock all the locks even if it took me a few tries. It still annoyed me a little that Neil is better than I at lock picking. It didn't surprise me that Andre is better than I. He told me he already learned how to unlock the first two types of lock when I asked him how do you unlock the first two types of lock so quickly.
XXXV (Monday, of January 13th home. New Orleans, United States of America)
Sitting at the dining table I ate my breakfast of oatmeal and apple slices calmly.
I directed my attention to Luthor and asked him if he would be willing to come with me today. He asked for how long. I told him nothing more than an hour or two. Talia hasn't kept me longer than 2 hours for my lesson.
Before Luthor can give his answer to me, Louis told me I would have to be back before 1:00. Because I will be spending the rest of the day with him helping him out.
Luther said he would go with me and with that, it's settled. I sat back to eat the rest of my food before going to get my things.
I need a little time to think about explaining to Luther why I'm learning the things I am learning from Talia.
Lynda Pov
Watching Louise leave the house with Luthor I couldn't help but feel jealous. I wanted to spend the day with her, but it looks like she already had plans.
We have rarely been doing anything together anymore. Maybe I should ask her later if I could come alone with her one of these day?
Talia Pov
I moved closer to Louise to see how she was taking my lesson on safe cracking today. She's not doing that good as her friend Andrei, but that's all right we have time to mold her up to my standard.
It's a shame that you don't have the natural talent that her friend have. Yet she makes up for that in hard work. She completed my task of locks picking in one week even if it took more than one tribe on Sunday to pick all the locks. But she will get better with practice, experience, and time.
After all she does have The Greatest as her teacher, so I expect nothing but her to become The Greatest too.
When I got nearer to Louise, she flinched away. She has been doing that since I met her last Monday. Her being afraid of me is a good thing since you will take me seriously and not try to fuck up. There is a downside because I would need her to trust me later on.
Move away from her, I deserve her but someone else is catching my eyes. It's her brother Luthor. Now his reaction is interesting. He clearly caught her flinching away from me but instead of asking me or her about it the only thing he did was watch me. And I can see in his eyes that he sees me as a threat.
It is also fascinating because her brother Neil did something similar but the exact opposite. That boy Neil saw her flinched away from me and saw me as a threat. He only moved closer to his sister. Then he gave her comfort by acting like he didn't see anything and watching me. But he also made sure I couldn't come anywhere closer to her for the rest of the week.
It's intriguing to see how they watch their sister now. Before they watched their sister with the confidence that she was always fine. But now their eyes start to show signs of concern.
Louise got up from where she was cracking the safe I gave her and walked over to me.
She looked at her brother first, and then she asked me if I could speak to her in privacy. Huh! It seems like whatever she wanted to ask she did not want her brother to know.
Walking been away from her brother's hearing distance I looked at her to tell her to speak.
She began asking me if it was all right for her to put to use the things she already learned from me. I find it peculiar that she asked permission first.
Since she asked permission first I think I will reward her by letting her use the things she learned for her before she was ready. I'll make this into a lesson. Yes I have the exact place in mind where she could learn exactly how to plan a smuggling heist.
Louise Pov
After my lesson with Talia compare to cleaning and taking stock of the inventory for my dad's furniture shop was immensely boring.
Going to the mechanic shop I saw Louis working on a car for one of his clients. Just from the car alone I knew which client it was. It was that client that Louis always seemed friendly with compared to the others.
Walking over and sitting down on a chair I watched him for a bit.
He was the first one to break the silence. He asked me what I wanted to do in the near future.
I sat there on that chair thanking what did I wanted to do in the near future.
With this apprenticeship I should be doing bigger and better plans for crime. With this apprenticeship I should become a smuggler. But that's more later down the line that's not something really in the near future.
So what do I want to do in the near future?
I couldn't come up with an answer that would please Louis, so I sat in silence.
Louis catching on that I couldn't answer him started to speak again. He asked me not to bring trouble to the family. He told me that he would not stop me from living my life the way I wanted to. He pleaded for me to be safe that he did not want to lose his daughter.
Hearing him ask me all these things made me realize that this man truly did love me, and that I couldn't promise him anythings he's just asked for.
XXXVI (Monday, of January 20th Home. New Orleans, United States of America)
Setting on the floor with Lynda and Andrei playing the card game battle. I was happy that Dad let Andrei come to the party.
Anytime I have an excuse stuffing him with food makes me happy.
It was a small miracle that Taila had something to do today. I do not want to know what like asking him for permission to take a day off for my family yet.
Louis Pov
I am 38 I am officially older than my dad.
Sitting down at my dinner table in full view of my children I can't be even happier. I'm happy that I got to see them grow up. Even if my two youngest still have time to go.
I glanced at my youngest, with her breathtaking smile playing with her sister and friend. It makes me wonder what the future holds for her and if she can keep that smile. She couldn't answer my question, but I hope she can answer my plea.
I looked over to my mother's namesake to see her smiling a bit. Something she usually does not do as her face always looks as if it was carved from stone. I'm happy to say she's finally starting to grow into her own independence. She's starting to move out of that shadow she put herself into. Let's hope she does not put herself into another shadow in the future.
I even took a glance at my trouble child's friend and see if I could get a glance of his future and what it holds for him. But where my daughter's future is surrounded by a bit of mystery his future is very obvious. He's going to follow my daughter even into the pit of hell itself.
I turn my view onto my next child my little ball of Truth. Lately he's been stepping more into the big brother role than even he knew possible. Similar to my mother's namesake he put his self into a shadow. A shadow he's breaking more out of with him not being aware of. His future like my trouble child's, is surrounding mystery too. I can see what he wants to do but is he followed down that path? That's the question.
I peek upon my child of doubt. Lately that's that mask of perfection has been breaking around the family. Showing more of her true self than she has been in a long time. Even if it is the ugliest side of herself I want her to keep showing it. She shouldn't have to feel that you have to hide herself even from her family. But I guess I am partially to blame for that. Her future has been carved out for her by me and my distraction. It already set in stone by the efforts she put into keeping that mask.
Finally, I laid eyes on my sunbathe child. He entertained the girl he told me he was going to marry. Such an auspicious thing with my child of truth tell me of all the girls he let on. But he proclaimed it and when he proclaimed something he always followed through. Even if he regretted it. But this girl who is not sunbathed as my own child but more likely that akin to a storm. Have shown that you will not make him regret it. Their future together seeing bright. Now we only need him to take that step away from the family. Away from the responsibility he put onto itself.
Yahontov Represents Pov
Watching the man once known as Stone fish I couldn't say he's all that impressive. The clothes he was wearing were made for stealth, but it was all rugby and old. Someone who is of his station should have enough money to buy new clothes. Even if it's only for a lackey like me. Or does he just think I'm not important enough for him to change his clothes?
Ty chast' razvalivayushcheysya mashiny(you are part of a falling apart machine). But putting my personal emotion to side. He's the best of what he's done and my boss wants him for a mission.
"My employer wants you to bring a shipment of precious jewels to the Marina family"
XXXVII (Tuesday, of January 21st 1958. Louis home. New Orleans, United States of America)
The quietness of morning breakfast is the breakfast I love the most. It is when my family is at their most relaxed.
And when my family is the most relaxed it's when they are the most agreeable.
"Neil" I said after taking a bite of my eggs and bologna breakfast sandwich. Hearing me call his name he looked over to me giving me this look that tells me to continue.
"Could you come with me today?" I asked of him. Yet before he could answer Lynda smoked before him.
"May I come with you today Louise" She implored in such a formal way that I did not know what to say at first.
My immediate instance was to say no. For the vague reason of her doing so well without me. But then at that moment I thought of that point of time when my sister and I were inseparable.
I thought back on how much time we have spent together lately and I can only remember the time 3 weeks ago. Where she sat by my bed reading a book on snakes as I daydreamed of the future.
I hesitated but told her yes she could come. I hope I don't regret this.
Lynda Pov
I stared at the man that my sister had introduced as her teacher. Tall, well muscled, lanky limbs and blonde.
Oddly enough, this man reminds me of a monster I read about once. What was it name...oah the Yowie.
This man did not look the part of a teacher. In his warned clothes, mostly black. He looks like what people usually think a criminal looks like.
But my sister has shown more respect to this man than then the teachers with their majestic new suits in our fancy school.
This man is more imposing than majestic. But this man has my sister's trust.
It may not seem like it when my sister's flinch away from him. And when she tries to not let me go anywhere near him.
He has my sister's trust. I repeated over and over again in my mind as I watched my sister finch away from him.
He has my sister's trust.
It's in little ways that she acts around him. It's in the little ways that she still comes to him even though she's plainly afraid of him. It's in the little ways that she listens to everything he tells her.
It's just that he doesn't have a lot of her trust.
"Little lady do you want to learn too?" The Yowie asks the coyote.
And the Coyote bears her teeth because the Yowie was a threat to the Butterfly.
Louise Pov
Ather watching my sister bear her teeth at Talia I could tell that he found it funny. He had this twinkle in his eyes that couldn't be anything but amusement.
I was surprised he asked to teach her. He did not ask Andrei, Luthor, or Neil if they wanted to learn.
He made it seem like we had a choice and the boys didn't. Was that sexist? I couldn't help but wonder. Talia being sexist was a thought I did not consider. When I came to this man. I can't think of him being sexist when he could beat the crap out of me even if I was a girl.
I mean this man did not ask the boys if they wanted to be his apprentice. He asked me a female if I wanted to be his apprentice. He asked Lynda a female if she wanted to learn.
So was this some kind of form of sexism that Talia is showing? I just can't place it the way he said it is rum me the wrong way for some reason.
Talia eventually came over to me to continue lecturing me while I practiced safe cracking. I think I'm getting better at this but not by much.
Today's lecture was on how to smuggle jewelry.
Halona Pov
Hand sewing the clothes for next spring with the girls in my class I couldn't help us sympathize with them.
Once again our siblings who didn't look Native American were allowed to spend their time outside the community lands.
I wonder one day will the adults... will mom realize that this is not that different from the reservation they grew up on.
That this is just another cage just with better treatment.
It makes me wonder when I take over, if I would have the power to change this cage into true freedom for the one of us who are bound to this land.
But the girls distracted from my pessimist thought with their next question.
"Halona will Louise gather more items for the community?" Abeque asks.
"Yes, will she really do like this fabric she has gotten?" Dyani said as she held up a fabric of yellow with a dash of orange and brown that she was working on to make into a dress.
"I will agree some of the medicine Louise brought will help my Mawmaw" Komorkis stated.
"I think my little sister will gather more items for the community. But I don't think anytime soon she will be punished for the last thing she did." I told the females.
"Oh yes I can see how she was punished for that. Robbing a hospital how daring." Nizhoni said while covering her hand over her mouth. Her tone might sound abash to the other girls but to me it sounded snooty.
"Daring it might be, but I thought it was brave" Gouyen said.
I was surprised she even spoke. That girl also will never say anything. She doesn't get along with any of the other girls in our age group. She didn't like the status quo. I once heard my mom say that she mostly did not speak a word to anybody because she had too much to say but no power.
After her comment most girls became quiet. Waiting for her to continue. When it became obvious she was not going to say anything else that quietness eventually left into silence.
Louise Pov
Before leaving to go home Talia stopped me.
"This is where you're going to put those skills I taught you to use and don't get caught" He said in a very serious voice. He handed me a piece of paper.
The relax and amuse feel he had around him that I was getting used to was completely gone. He was serious unlike how he's been since the first class I had with you. If it wasn't for the tone he was using that clued me in that he was serious it would have been his expression he would on his face.
The expression you hold on his face reminds me of the day we met, and it's terrified me.
Clutching the paper in my hand I try to leave faster. But he grabbed my shoulder.
"Do you understand?" He asked of me with a stern voice.
"Yes sir" I mumbled out quickly to him. And he finally let go of my shoulder. I was free to go home.
Author's note :
The next update hopefully is 3/15/22
Now on to facts
History Divergent
How flame's user affects history
Keypad lock was not invented inuit 1976. Keypad locks pop up earlier in this world because flame users wanted better locks. But this does not mean that the normal world that's not affiliated with the mafia has the locks. Louise naturally does not know this yet and just thinks that the locks will already be in the world in this time period.
How does the Government affect the flame users
And what changes the principal character did in history
Fun Fact
Ty chast' razvalivayushcheysya mashiny(you are part of a falling apart machine) is a Russian insult.
Mawmaw is grandmother in Cajun French. Some Chitimachas, especially older people, speak a Cajun French dialect.