aurora rising one shots, volume two.

Doātelå ✨

"Oh, little brother. How you have fallen." Saedii hisses at me from outside my cell.
"You have grown weak, and frail, and soft."

"I have not." I murmur.

"Oh, but you have. You care only for Aurora, is that so? You care only for a girl who is sentenced to death."

"YOU DONT GET TO TALK ABOUT HER!" I roar.

"And what stops me? Because you surely can't."

"I can. And I will, Saedii."

"You can try."

I think to what will hurt her the most.
"What would Arya think? What would our sister think of what we have become?"

Her face pales, and her eyes go wide.
"I-I didn't mean to..."

"You did. You killed our sister."

~~~

"Kal!" Saedii shouts, flinging open the door.

"Saedii?" I look up from my siif.

"I-I...It's Arya."

Our mother comes out of the kitchen, smelling of spices and herbs.
"What about Arya?"

"I-I hurt her." She sobs.

My mother and I exchange glances, and rush out the door, following Saedii as she runs.

She leads us to the Lias forest, barelling through purple leaves and stumbling over hidden roots.

She leads us to our sister, who is nestled into roots, blood covering the waywalker sigil on her head.

We were only eleven.

~~~

"I-I didn't mean to kill her, Kal."

"Then what did you want to do."

She swallows, and fights back tears.
"She made me mad. You and her were always mothers favourite." She makes little air quotes with her hands.
"'The little songbird' everyone called her. They said she was destined for great things."

I fight back memories of her.
"She was." I look up to her, "She was Waywalker. She wanted to be a preformer, Saedii."
"She was innocent."

"She wasn't!" Saedii insists

"Really?" I ask "She'd never hurt anyone. She didn't deserve to be killed!"

"She- she..."

"We are done here." I pause before adding "Doātelå."

Murderer.