chapter one
you should, you should walk to places. walk all over. i walk since i didnt get a carriage, they dropped me in this forest. makes me a fairy, does it? they gave me servants, so i dont die. its wrong to let me die, is it? but to also deny me living, it is all such selfsatisfaction on their part. in this body that has breathed 5 springs and 5 summers but only 4 winters lies a me who has chosen to be complacent//
i feed a cat. mrs ventrude has grown exasperated looking for me so i feed the cat. that is when i see maid kissa come back from my mothers place. my mother put me here in this forest but a mothers love is much too strong to leave me be without observation. not love for me, not for me. but for her other, her only children. to keep them 'safe' from me, so i must be kept under watch. maid kissa is used for that purpose, she is a pitiful breadwinner for her family, she is however merely a child of 14 summers. in this world maybe thats old enough to carry your worlds weight and not be returned sympathy. in my world, in my urban society we had rights for these children. whether they were upheld fastidiously.. they were still certainly there at least.
maid kissa notices and approaches me, her eyes unabashedly conniving. she wishes to glean anything out of me, her tenacity is inspirational. she asks me what i may be doing, not even with a smile.