The Way I Come

Her Awakening

Josh's prospective-
It's her I know it. The girl with the red hair. Except it's gotten brighter and so has she since the last time I saw her. She lay untouched with a light powder covering her skin and cloak, the snow still falls lightly and fills the air with white light. I sometimes wondered what happened to her and today was as shocking as the sun laying its rays down on this land. For this land is ever full of snow, but you probably knew that already.

We all watch and wait for her to awake, then we will stand and she will be questioned by the queen. As a member of the royal family I sit underneath my mothers cold watchful eyes. She raises her crystal staff and calls order to the few that live in these parts, most live on the other side of Misteric mountain, it separates our land of snow from spring. Why do you ask would you even live here then? Well most winter fay must stay in winter and prisoners from their land are also send here. I guess it must seem pretty bad here. I live here so I've gotten used to it.

I look to my left and eye my sister warily, she sits in a gold thrown wrapped in metal binds. She struggles, resistant of her binds and whispers to herself "why, why couldn't I have just had a normal mom, why?" and other things I can't understand.

"Joshua Hail and Snow Hail attention please!" our mother yells. I instantly look up and focus my eyes on the court, while my sister struggles next to me. As my eyes sink to the ground I see the girl stir and open her eyes, blinking rapidly until her eyes find my mother. She lets out a startled scream and try's to move her legs to jump and run. The only problem is that her legs were stuck fast to the ground. She let out another scream and squirmed violently. I smile, no not an I won smile but a we've done good smile.

I looked to my left again to see how Snow was taking this. Except she wasn't there. Frantically I search for her in the crowd, not like I care about what happens to my sister, but mother put a death threat on me if I let her get away. As I look around, I look at everyone and search for those rare bright eyes. Her and my mother are the only ones that seemed to inherit them. Yah I know they used to brag about it all the time to me. I role my eyes. I used to be as care free as my sister still is, but things changed, the world changed. I changed with it, and now she's the different one.

I scan around the room quickly before my eyes settle on her. I stand and stride away from my throne and into the crowd of on lookers. I walked at a quick pace towards my sister who was weaving her way through the crowd. As I catch up to her I grab her by the collar of her dress whirl her around. She makes a sound like a wounded animal and stares up at me with scared eyes.

"Please!" She pleads. "I can't stand watching this she's, my friend!"

At this point I must choose between my only sister and my evil mom, her freedom or the reward I would receive for turning her in. I walk forward with her collar in hand and can her the blood rushing to my ears, I'm glad though that I choose...