(Unknown POV)
I took a long somewhat steady breaths as color struggled to return to my vision. I realized I was on the ground and my legs felt like jelly. They had seamed to have given out at some point in my vision.
My mind was clouded by more fear than some people will probably ever feel in there lives. I looked at all the faces of the people around me and they all held the same terrified look that rammed it's way through my head. Out of all the faces I searched for my mother's and when I finally found it a small bit of warmth filled my heart in the form of relief. She did not look frightened or afraid instead she had a morbid look about her that I had never seen. I reached out to her wanting nothing more than her comfort.
"M...mo...mother" I forced out through my raw and scratched throat.
She looked down at me but he expression never changed and her eyes stayed cold. My mother approached me quickly, the sound of her heals on the marble floor was almost defining in the quiet of the large room. I expected her to take me in her arms and take me away from all that had just happened. I thought that she would hold me close and wipe tears away from my already tear streaked face. I was given none of that.
My mother stopped in front of my small crumpled form and crouched down closer to my face. She looked me in the eye with a look I had never seen before and it frightened me almost as much as the seen I had just witnessed. I was confused far beyond what I could understand at the time and now I look back at the moment. I know that it was the very moment that all the love that my mother once had for me died.
At fist my mind couldn't process what had happened. There was a hot stinging in my cheek, I had been sent out of my sitting position into a heap on the could floor, and my line of vision had been moved to the side. Only when I looked back at my mother's outstretched hand did I realize that she had actually struck me.
I had no words for the moment but apparently she did. She rose and towered above me and looked down at my small form. She sent me such a could glare that it seemed to kill me to my very soul but what she said next is really what ended my existence.
"From this day, I am not your mother. You are not my daughter. The name you once possessed is dead. My daughter is dead. You are now Shi. I should have you killed. Be thankful for my mercy."
Just like that she walked away and took with her who I was. I was no longer the same person anymore. She even took my name. Shi. She named me Darkness. Everyone was gone from the marble room before I knew what was happening. I just stayed hurtled on the floor, not moving, not speaking. At some point servants did come to fetch me. The took me to a new room with no windows that was isolated from evreything else. I never really saw my mother after that. Sometimes during my walks I would see her from afar but she would never see me and I was not permitted to see her again.
