Of Shame & Regret

…..:::::|. Silver Street: Peddler’s Way .|:::::…..

Halycind awoke.

She was on a park bench, up the far end of Silver Street. She was clothed and enveloped in a perfect bouquet of floral scents. She moaned herself awake to find she was surrounded by citrus blooms.

A cold fear gripped her.

And she instantly felt ugly for betraying him.

Siin would never forgive her.

She tried to stand up but tears were threatening to pull her to the ground.

Several children and a grouping of interested men criss-crossed her vision as they peered upon the near-whimpering girl in the park.

She collected her sobs and tried to straighten her stance for sake of appearance.

Halycind was very well put-together this sun-rising. Her bright white armour gleamed in all its bright whiteness; every clasped shut, every cord tied, every hair in her wolaenki in place all laid with feathers and rosestones. But the Halycind on the inside of all that polish was very wrong.