AURORA ENDINGS
In the beginning, the
girl was made of shadows. Of the
silver linings of
oceans and the
hazy shades of
nightfall. She hid within herself and
prayed for
evanescence.
She stayed in the
night with midnight purple eyes to
see with and
dancer’s feet to
creep softly through the
brambles. Unseen, unheard by travelers and
Carriages. She was distinct, separate and
not of
them. She was their light transparency, nothing, no one mourning but the
leaves. Nothing there, as
always.
The Shadow-Girl did not resent her life and
enjoyed her solitude. But sometimes, when her lines were thick splotches of
ink in the
dead of
winter, she would see the
Princess holding hands with the
Prince, or the
children who skipped down the
gravel and bark-ridden roads in
dresses made of
stardust and
would long for
her own fairy tale.
As the
Shadow-Girl began to
slowly vanish, a Daughter of the
Sea found her, curled in the
rabbit’s hole. What are you doing? the
Daughter asked, speaking through her smile. Hiding, the
shadow replied. Why? I don’t like the
light. It
will make me disappear. You can’t disappear in the
light, the
Sun-Girl said. I can. So the
Daughter, bathed in blue and
yellow said Come, and took the
Shadow’s hand and
pulled her into the
open.
Light hit the
Shadow and
melted it
away, making her visible to
Others as a corporeal being, not just the
echo their footsteps held or
bodies created against Luminescence. In its
place was a girl, all in
black with silver hair and the
same violet eyes that had never before seen colour.
Dance, said the
Sun-Sea Child. Dance, and
so they did.
People thought they looked wrong; the
Sea-Sun’s eyes were gold and
her mane was every shade of
blue; her heart was pure and
accepted the cold, purple of
Darkness’ Child.
She wondered why the
Daughter of the
Day would choose her as a friend, but to the
Shadow’s question she merely smiled and
said I love you and to this the
Darkness brightened, for she loved the
Sun-Girl too.
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