Chapter 10: Gentleness of Being Understood
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The moment my consciousness took hold in this world, I could see them.
In the embrace of my first holder, as I opened my eyes, tears fell but no voice came. A strange phenomenon had occurred. A child had shed tears but no crying was heard.
It was because this child did not see the holder but what was hovering over her head.
A spirit, a ghost, a fleeting memory of someone’s life.
The child could not tell the difference at such a tender age. That child, later became to be known as… “The Witch”
My mother was too kind for her own good, and my father was always too late for everything he attempted. I grew up in the shadows of those who pointed their fingers at my existence.
Did they despise my cold composure, or was it the sight I had been given that filled them with dread? While others shunned me, it was the spirits that lulled me to sleep—not my 'kind' mother.
Why?