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Posted on July 30, 2017 at 03:38:57 AM by poppy
Poppy drew up to a sudden stop at the sound of her own name, carried by a voice she'd have known anywhere but could have sworn she'd forgotten in the years since Aura's death. She turned on her heel, back towards her mother, and froze. For a moment, a long breath, Poppy felt paralyzed. The love of a child for their mother flooded her, as pure and untainted as it must have been when she was just a baby. There was Aura, in the real, living flesh, after so long. Back from the dead, looking like she'd only been on holiday all these years. And Poppy... was she happy? Really? Especially under the circumstances, that was weird even by her standards. But there it was, the plain and painful truth, that no matter what happened between them, there would always be - somewhere inside of Poppy - a small child who loved her mother. It left her breathless, startled. Had these years apart made her softer? Had her own failures as a mother made her more forgiving towards Aura's own mistakes? Wait, what the hell was this mushy stuff? She almost snorted out loud. The storm of anger and frustration and estrangement came back a vengeance, and Poppy's eyebrows crashed together like stormclouds, her eyes flashing. She stomped back towards her mother.
"Oh now you care about the dying?" she snapped - unconsciously dropping her voice into a heated snarl at her mother's rebuke. "But not when your own granddaughter is in danger? Just because you were dead when she was born means you don't care about her?" Poppy pulled back, outrage on her face. And then she forced herself to give a cold smile. "Oh wait, not caring is your specialty, right, mum?" Poppy spat the word like a curse, and instantly regretted it. Okay, Poppy, that was low even for you, she thought, and her shoulders slumped just a tiny bit. Now that she was thinking a bit more clearly, the situation was bad, but... wasn't it kind of her own fault for not paying closer attention to Zel? And Zel clearly thought there was a reason why Aura hadn't saved her... Poppy shoved her hair out of her face impatiently, in too deep now to back down. |
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- we will rise together - By aura August 3, 2017 at 00:32:11 AM
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