my bitty contribution to the sokkla fandom. thank you for reading my unedited garbage.
She dragged a single chipped nail underneath a golden
stitch, and tugged at it. It popped out of the seams.
Mother loved her cushions.
They were propped on the seating area by the
window. The window had a beautiful view of the garden. Zuzu held that room with
a lot of sentimental value. They would play there together while mother, over
her delicate, refined embroidery, glanced up and watched them.
They played everything from tag, to building towers out of
wooden blocks, to sword fights in imaginary worlds. Even back then—he was the
servant. She played the king.
After mother left, father occupied that room. He shut the
doors. No one played there. And the two of them were ushered away to their
lessons, admonishments and into the refined culture of fire and etiquette that
fit the throne.
She plucked out another stitching from the botched bird.
Now Zuzu, with his ever-mournful, dull mind,
gazes out into mother’s garden and mooned over his devastated family and his
insane little sister.
She ripped out the cloth, bearing fleshy cotton and dug
her fingers through the ripped fabric and pulled out a fistful of cotton.
Mai, no the traitor,
she corrected, laces her arms around his shoulders. Zuzu would take her hand and sigh.
They share a long moment. They wish things were different.
Then—she rolled her eyes—they talk about visiting her
with flowers. The traitor wouldn’t, she’d say she wasn’t ready to face her. Zuzu would though. He brought his
wretched flowers and she always burned them to the petals.
Like mother would do to father before she escaped his
clutches.
And the traitor would lean over and whisper into his ear
with pity and romance him with her words of consolation for his loss. His loss and not hers. Her castle, her
castle—now ridden with filth—with Zuzu
and his friends who—
“You’ve got a really scary look,” he said.
And just like that—the world crackled back into her little
furnished “cellar.”
Ah yes, the water-tribe boy, who’s mouth ran like a leaky
tap of irrefutable nonsense, punctuated by spurts of sense, followed by disappointing, annoying drips.
The faucet was broken, she added.
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