Nene Kinokuni - Mirror
You don't know how to live, they say.
Living means being over the sea and under the sky.
Living means learning to hate and learning to love.
Living is breathing.
You are not breathing.
.
But she isn't supposed to breathe.
Because she's the heir to a line of kings and queens – the next pebble to skip across a timeless lake of tradition.
Even if it kills her; even if it tears the world apart –
.
– she can't just start breathing.
.
.
There's a mirror – one with a crack running down its face.
One day, she looks into it... and sees someone staring back with eyes so, so empty –
.
– she wonders if they were made from shattered dreams.
A/N: Since Chapter 210-ish, I've always seen Nene as a character with suppressed emotions. To work all your life perfecting your family's art only to see a boy master everything you've lived for in about two seconds?
Ow.
And thus, this piece of writing was born.
