Chapter 2 Break | The Second Piece
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Nanna ran faster than even she thought she could and returned with a bejeweled oil lamp, placing in the girl’s empty hands. “Don’t you look beautiful!” Nanna told her approvingly. “Now hurry it up, child, and remember to wish with the correct words in the precise order.”
Clutching the lamp between her arms, Nanna thought the little girl quite looked like the princess that everyone thought she was. Won’t her grandmother be surprised with that little trinket; if only Serafina knew what she held in her young hands.
“I wish I were standing next to my grandmother. Right now.”
As soon as the little girl’s words left her mouth, a bright puff of smoke burst in the hallway. Nanna didn’t need to look to see that the girl had already gone.
“What’s done is done, then,” Nanna whispered, hoping none of the wee fairies could hear her. “What’s done is done.”
Nanna scuttled off to the kitchen to finish making the night’s offering, and tried not to think about what she had just put in the arms of that spoiled child. After all, she already knew she would die soon. It was just a matter of when.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Ah, handling faeries is tricksy business. I’m liking the way this is structured, with the chapter breaks giving us a more intimate look at the world that shaped Serafina, whether or not she remembers it. I’m beginning to see why she knows how to ride a bike, but not how to microwave or use computers…