This one's not that great- Hope you enjoy anyway, though! ~ First: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/854964808/ Previous: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/872460862 Next: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/874888492/ ~ Age rating: 11+ (basically just as long as you're a mature reader) ~ I am beginning to realize that I have mostly started the pieces of my story with something about Mother or Em. So let me tell you something about me this time. I once watched the stars for the whole night, all the way until the sun crested over the mountains in Seabrook and brought us the dawn. They have always fascinated and delighted me. I wondered about them, what each of their stories were. I have heard in some fairy tales that they were the spirits of heroes cast up into the sky, so that even when they were gone, they would light the path for others. I wanted to be one of them, cast up into the sky when I was gone, forever remembered by all the wanderers who got lost. I wanted to be who they would count on to bring them home safely. It took me a while to remember that I would never be one of them, never reside amongst the stars, because I am a villain. I always have been and always will be. I will never have a place amongst the stars. Em and I met up by the lake in the Woods every day, and she was almost always able to come earlier than I was, thanks to Mother who tended to make it difficult to get away from the training so close to the beginning of the Tournament, given how big of a thing it was for her. On the one day where she was later than usual, I had been worried, wondering what was taking her so long. I shouldn’t have been so anxious, seeing as we hardly know each other and how she has her own life too – plus the fact that even my /name/ is a lie with her – but I couldn’t help it. “Miss me?” she had asked when she had come by just before noon, a smirk on her face, like always. I did, but there was no way I was ever going to tell her that. She would have teased me about it forever. “Only a little,” I had said, meeting her grin with one of my own. It’s funny how being with her turns me into the kind of person that she is. Being Ravynne, I would never have done this with her, never have been confident enough to tease her or act like I was a rebel the way she is. But being Kaitlyn felt…different. Even if I was still technically the same person. “I’ve got something to show you,” Em had told me, grabbing my wrist and pulling me along. “I found it a while ago, and I think you might like it.” “What is it?” I had checked the sky, trying to push down my worries about not being back late and Mother wondering where I was. She would’ve killed me if she found out that I was spending time in the Woods – with a /hero/, no less. “Can’t tell you that, can I? Then it wouldn’t be a surprise.” So I let her drag me along through the forest.
