2025-02-12 17:00:36Mother?
Sophia had to skip the Circle session. She just wasn’t herself since the conversation.
When Voyne called her Mother, something woke in her. It was almost like she was used to hearing him say it.
It woke some memories that she did not knew she had. Some felt a lot like they were hers while most felt…off. Like she borrowed those memories from someone else.
In one of her memories, she was a child, somewhere. On some wide street, playing, holding a paper fan. There were lots of sounds, like a festival or some occasion going on.
Some cloaked people approached her. With the exact same cloaks that the Soul Church adherents wore.
The one in front of them knelt in front of her. He took off his hood and she looked into his eyes. She knew that face, knew those eyes.
Voyne, looking exactly the same as the present day, took her hand and kissed it with a greeting.
“Hail, Mother.”
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