SIS'
eed for patience. To me, patience meant that I was either in the process of getting lectur
in my direction. "Remember that..
h
rking together, we'd have found a happy medium. My mother had her re
ife with my folklore studies, something I'd always hated b
t the rules, against the calling that had been given t
il
hen my mother's scream erupted through the house, followed
stopped. Liter
se of a p
and said she'd been having ch
as f
r heart, almost res
about to st
side. "Do you want them to
be anything else. To those individuals, I would always be the dir
their h
tter than m
research with the constant dread that, one day, my number would b
wed to survive only because it was necessary for th
a few brief minutes as
voice spoke into the darkn
k and shook her head. "Remember, you are nothing, you are ugly, you are hum
epeated the ma
imes during my upbringing, I'd locked myself in my room and just stared at myself in the mirror. I'd focused on each feature and wondered
ng about our bloodlines being wicked and selfish, and how
if my number was calle
gs, and if my number was called, I f
I thought we'd come a long way
I was both nothing and everything, a
uniqueness because of
ted under my brea
ncrete as I made my way toward the light, the only l
oping that if I covered enough of myself, it would look humble, but
how could I have confidence when every day of my life my mom
I realized. The contact made me gasp. A slight
ice sounded like a soothing melody, causing me to almost sway on my
almost like an electric current was passing from his body into mine. I'd heard that it was nearly
e door, I looked arou
alls had sconces that I'm sure at one po
ould feel the power on the other sid
ght said. Finally, I glanced up
ve-year-old say to someone who had no ey
wasn't moving, yet he was
o comfort me. But his mouth still didn't move. Regardless of the knowledge i
d I was at the ceremony my life was going to
it meant the same thing. Espe
sweater, my p
nothing. You are everything. You are simply... y
re I could stop it, "they have that
he lights
hooling in
at I saw. All the pictures, all
ed very much to fall