Post by Elsceetaria on Feb 5, 2012 4:13:30 GMT 10
Title An Olive Branch
Rating: G
Prompt: #61 - Odd One Out
Summary: Tris visits her biological family.
Trisana wasn’t sure why she had accepted her father’s invitation to visit over the summer holidays. Actually, she did know; Niko had told her it was the right thing to do. When your biological family extended an olive branch, you took it. He had in truth said that you accepted it graciously, but she had trouble doing so with grace.
There would always be the pain of knowing that they hadn’t wanted her. She couldn’t help but feel that they only wanted her now for her prestige. She would have rather been back in Summersea with her real family or in the libraries examining the wealth of books that she never had enough time for when classes were in session. Alas, she wasn’t. She was seated in a ridiculously fine chair in her parent’s sitting room in Capchen while everyone seemed to talk around her.
None of them truly knew what to do with her. She was a Great Mage, but she was also the child they had thrown away. Neither of those being something that even the richest of merchants was usually comfortable being around for long.
It was odd. They had made all the niceties when she had arrived with Niko to provide both satisfactory accompaniment and introductions. There had been polite hugs and gentle questions about what life was like at the university and how it compared to Winding Circle(they knew a bit about Lightsbridge from Aymery years ago, but nothing about the temple system she had trained in), but when it truly came down to it, she knew she would never fit in. If they were able to overlook the fact that she was better dressed than they were, it would be hard for them to get past her dark glasses or glass dragon or her the years of pain and servitude she had gone through at their hands.
As she sat at dinner a few days after her arrival wishing that she didn’t care about these people enough to read at the dinner table, she spotted an all to familiar sparkle within one of her young cousins and smiled. The discussions that followed were going to be so much fun.
Rating: G
Prompt: #61 - Odd One Out
Summary: Tris visits her biological family.
Trisana wasn’t sure why she had accepted her father’s invitation to visit over the summer holidays. Actually, she did know; Niko had told her it was the right thing to do. When your biological family extended an olive branch, you took it. He had in truth said that you accepted it graciously, but she had trouble doing so with grace.
There would always be the pain of knowing that they hadn’t wanted her. She couldn’t help but feel that they only wanted her now for her prestige. She would have rather been back in Summersea with her real family or in the libraries examining the wealth of books that she never had enough time for when classes were in session. Alas, she wasn’t. She was seated in a ridiculously fine chair in her parent’s sitting room in Capchen while everyone seemed to talk around her.
None of them truly knew what to do with her. She was a Great Mage, but she was also the child they had thrown away. Neither of those being something that even the richest of merchants was usually comfortable being around for long.
It was odd. They had made all the niceties when she had arrived with Niko to provide both satisfactory accompaniment and introductions. There had been polite hugs and gentle questions about what life was like at the university and how it compared to Winding Circle(they knew a bit about Lightsbridge from Aymery years ago, but nothing about the temple system she had trained in), but when it truly came down to it, she knew she would never fit in. If they were able to overlook the fact that she was better dressed than they were, it would be hard for them to get past her dark glasses or glass dragon or her the years of pain and servitude she had gone through at their hands.
As she sat at dinner a few days after her arrival wishing that she didn’t care about these people enough to read at the dinner table, she spotted an all to familiar sparkle within one of her young cousins and smiled. The discussions that followed were going to be so much fun.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!