10 Liberated Pas (1/2)
Sometimes it's not that we are afraid to look into the darkness. What we are afraid of, is it seeing it look back at us and recognize us as it is ours. Admitting your own darkness and accepting it are two completely different things.
Fan Daiyu had entered a deep slumber only to go through a nightmare. She was reliving her past life. The pain, the hate, the loathing, and the darkness.
She felt it.
They were one.
It gave her a thirst for chaos.
It screamed for her and tempted her but instead of accepting it, she ran. It chased and haunted her.
Become one with us. Take us to your world. We can give you power. You can be our queen!
She remembered her past. She remembered the world of greed, power, and suffering.
”NO! I HATE YOUR POWER! I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR QUEEN!”
”I want…”
[I want..]
[What do I want? What have I always yearned for?]
She turned and face the shadows behind her.
They enveloped her and tried to submerge her in her most vulnerable memory. Her worst living nightmare. The night her body was defiled.
She felt the emotions of that night fluctuate and corrupt her.
When she was about to give in she heard the sweetest voice that calmed her raging heart and her mad mind. The sound of the song was familiar. Two beautiful images flashed through her mind and gave her a growing hope.
They were here. They hadn't left her even in her dreams. They helped when she was about to be consumed into her past.
They cared for her.
”Ah”
[That's what I wanted]
”I wanted to be loved and cared for”
She released the last bit of anger and sadness in her heart.
She released her past.
Her tears transformed from pitch black to beautiful crystal like droplets of rain. Inside her body the small shining star had begun to hatch.
She felt her soul tremble and those crystal tears became pure gold.
Before she could realize what had happened she woke up.
Her eyelids opened and revealed the most gorgeous pair of eyes to have ever existed. They were as bright as stars and filled with a new hope, will, and goal.
They were unusual and unique. They were not just one color but multiple in one. They were breath taking.
Those eyes shone at the sight of the two people in front of her.
Fan Ying and Nuwa Yenay had woken up to the sound of small stifled sobs. Their baby jade had been having a nightmare.
”Maybe she feels lonely”
”What should we do?”
”Ill sing her, her song”
Nuwa Yenay sang and the little bundle in their arms calmed down. Her heart leaped with joy at the actions of her child. She was just too cute.
The couple stared at her and were about to put her back down when her eyes fluttered open.
Nuwa Yenay was enchanted by her own daughter.
Fan Ying grumbled inside his heart but couldn't say anything because he too was charmed by those eyes.
Their small bundle of love seemed more alive and beautiful than ever. They saw as those round bright eyes gazed at them in a daze.