A Court Of Love & Sufferings

ch.2

10 years later...

I thrash against the table fighting the people coming near me. Metal clinks, my arms and legs throb as i look down to see them shackled with long metal chains binding me on the table i am laid on. The weight of these chains makes it harder for me to move. Not that i could without them because the deadly substance they inject in me makes me loose all my strength.

Faebane they called it. It's a poison used against fae to suppress their powers, it slows the abilities of a fae. Given a large amount one could even die from it. But am not dead....yet. For the past eight years i am being forcefully injected by it. It started when one time i lost control of my powers during the kill and my power erupted swallowing hybern's few soldiers in its darkness.
They put faebane made handcuffs on me and my power neutralized.
Since then they started injecting little of faebane in body.

Right now i am a subject of research. These people study me, about my physical abilities, the powers i own.
Growing up going through all this torturous deeds made me realize that i am a threat. They see me as a threat to them, a bomb that could explode anytime and put them in their graves.

Every month for the past eight years they put me on this table, checking me, measuring the threat level i've become.

By the time i was free the sun sets into dark sky, moon rises from its slumber, stars are shining across the sky.
This view tugs at my heart. It creates a soft ache in my heart. Rubbing my chest i take in the scene all i could before my alone time is over.

I get two hours before midnight to myself everyday. It's the only time i am left alone without any eyes on me. Since dawn to dusk i am under their scrutinizing gaze as they wait for the command to end me if i did something.

Returning to my room i see lily and poppy making my bed.

"You are here. Come i will do your hair" says lily. As she combs my hair i relax into her.

"Your hair shines like stars in the night sky" said poppy.

I look in the mirror staring at myself. It's been a long time since i looked at myself this carefully.
My long hair flows down till my waist, its silver colour does shine like those stars i saw in the night sky. My lavender eyes stares back at me.

"Can you tell me about my mother ? What did she look like?"

Lily takes a soft breath "she was a gorgeous lady. Her beauty was incapable. She had soft features like you, her hair was dark as night"

"Dark hair? I don't get my hair from mother" i frown.

Poppy says ''No probably from your father".

After a pause i ask "Do you know who my father is?"

"We don't, your mother never told us. We assisted your mother Estelle for 500 years yet there were things that she never told us"

I guess this mystery is also gone with my mother.

Lily and poppy retrieves to their room.
I think about my mother how she survived five centuries in this hell. She was a strong woman i would give her that. I just sometimes wish she was here. Someone i could talk to, someone who would listen me. I wish she could tell me about herself and myself... what am i? ...Who am i? All these things are still mystery to me. Sighing i go to bed.