Chapter 2: Cornered
Lilac
I stood before the silver waterfall out here in the gardens. The wind blasted behind me, whipping my hair around my face. My eyes were bleak, empty and filled with sadness as I stared at my reflection in the water.
My mother named me Lilac because of the colors of my eyes- warm lilac that twinkles in the sun, and because it was gender neutral.
I pushed my long curls out of my face. My hair was in an elegant bun, but some strands had managed to escape it after that disaster. I’ve never cut my hair since I was born, so it was long enough to go past my waist.
The tiara perched on my head felt like a mockery.
Disguising as a girl was fairly easy due to my appearance. I took after my mother- I had her round face, button nose and pouty, round lips. Although, if people looked closer, they’d be able to pick out the sharp outline of my jaw, and the sharpness of my features which could easily give away the fact that I wasn’t a girl. I guess this is the part where makeup comes in. With makeup on, I was almost as flawless like my sisters.
I let my eyes take in the state of my dress. The once gleaming white dress was now stained with so many blotches of food that it would be impossible to get it out even if I start scrubbing at it right now. However, if I had the gift of manipulating water like some people here does, that would have been a piece of cake.
Some people have the gift of seeing the future, some have the gift of supernatural strength, the gift to levitate things, the gift to float in the air, the gift to be super fast, and the gift to breathe underwater.
At age six, every child born in the last hundred years till date have all successfully awakened a special gift tuned in with their soul.
As if putting up a facade of being a girl my entire seventeen years of living wasn’t hard enough, I was also giftless- which was what earned me the title ’cursed freak’.
From the moment my father called me a cursed freak in public during the Nirvana ritual whereby every six year old kid participating, awakened their heavenly gifts except me, it spread past our kingdom, into other kingdoms, completely damaging my reputation everywhere.
Since then, whenever people see me, they instantly think of a ’cursed ’freak’.