[The letter is on a small scrap of paper, hastily written with some words smudged or oddly written compared to her usual, neat hand]
Alastor,
I do not know when I will have time again to write, so please forgive me if this letter is brief. My brother Emilios brought news today that my mother, sister and I will be required to leave the house by the end of this week. I’ll admit that I thought this was possible, but it does not dull the pain any less to have seen it coming. My mother is furious, although she puts on an air of calm for both of us. She has been hiding away our most precious valuables every day since my father died.
My heart feels like a heavy rock tossed into the Aegean sea.
Emilios took me aside and offered me a place in the palati, but I told him that I couldn’t abandon my mother like that. She is...a different sort of woman, but she is still my mother. Her choices in life have greatly affected my life, have caused others so much pain but she is hurting too. She loved my father, I know it, and even if her relationship with him was wrong that does not lessen her pain. I am less so worried about Tasia. She has always been the fighter, and I know that she does not need my support as much as mother does.
I’m sorry, this letter did not turn out to be brief at all. I’ll try to write again when I can, I have to..move everything out of the house and put everything back again in the new one. Wherever it is. Once I know more, I will send word to you again.
I flub lu.
Sara
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