She comes searching, though she does not know it.
Her knife cuts their way into the Creek and through its small window Florentine steps. A warm breeze, so heavily laden with the scent of fresh berries and the chirp of summertime birds, sighs after her through the open window. It pushes her on, coaxing her like a warm hand upon her spine, but the girl is rock and she simply stands, immovable.
Anywhere. Florentine had sighed to her dagger. And yes, she truly meant, anywhere. But it seems, both an irony and an obvious truth that this should be where she most desired to go.
Here is the place where love lingers beneath every leaf and between the petals of every flower. Even the waters of the creek chattered of love with its bubbly laugher. So much love, in all its forms, they touch the parts of her so awfully disconnected.
This girl is losing herself, she feels it, she knows it. A part of her is falling down a rabbit hole she never saw and now, oh now she stands, craving love to fill that terrible hole. Any love will do a child’s voice whispers in her mind as it looks to this land of plenty.
There is a hurt, that slithers like unwelcome serpents through her veins, which has undone her. It has made a forever-grounded girl so terribly unstable. But what is she to do?
Florentine looks and looks and looks. She sees everything with those gold rimmed eyes and yet, she sees nothing at all. Dusk’s curse, to be neither here nor there, has condemned its Queen and she is stuck in a liminal space with no end and no beginning. Her soul trembles, for it should always be free, and yet here it is trapped in this never-ending place: neither here, neither there.
How long does she stand here? It is until the moon descends and the sun rises - until she is so far from Dusk and Night and so terribly unhappy. Then she opens her eyes (that long ago closed) and watches this land of love; feeling nothing at all.
~ Anyone is welcome to post. Flora and I are in need of a cathartic thread, please help <3
★ She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future ★
