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Post by glitters on Feb 28, 2009 12:11:47 GMT -5
'A tool for everyone else...?'
Jasmine wasn't going to inquire further on that one, not now, anyway.
"You two got along very well. Would I be correct to think that you two played the violin often, then? He sounds to me like a generous man, and very good to you for passing on the gift of music. I can't play any instruments, but my mother and I would sing all the time when we were working at home, here."
Jasmine looked ahead, trying to figure out how to ask Kara about her life without upsetting her. It's not that it was hard, it was just that it would bother her to know that she made her upset or uncomfortable.
"Do you think your cousin would be happy for you now? Is this where you think he'd want you to be?" she couldn't help but ask.
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Post by Kara Samsra on Feb 28, 2009 13:23:16 GMT -5
"Well to be honest I'm not really sure. I guess he might be happy that he doesn't have to rule our country and that I will be once I marry." Kara looked up at the night sky through the shining leaves of the trees. "He just never really wanted the responsibility. He wanted to be a sage like you and Lady Hala."
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Post by glitters on Feb 28, 2009 14:02:32 GMT -5
Jasmine frowned. "I don't think I could ever understand what it would be like to rule a country," she said slowly, "but I know when I was younger, I didn't want to be a sage--because what good are we, anyway? We don't fight, and those who do have to constantly look out for us if we are travelling with them. I always thought we just got in the way."
She smiled then as she looked at Kara. "But as we can see, I changed my mind, and not because my mother said I had to. We have a ton of responsibilities ourselves, and the way I saw it was that we're important to the world--our services are needed. It makes me wonder if this cousin of yours eventually saw it like that, too.
But maybe he didn't. Maybe he left to follow his dream. Do you think he went on to do something great, something that he was proud of?"
She really hated asking her a ton of questions. She almost felt like she was prying.
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Post by Kara Samsra on Feb 28, 2009 15:08:24 GMT -5
"No, sadly I don't. The last day I remember he was sick...he probably died from the plague like everyone else..." With a sigh Kara hugged her knees tightly again.
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Post by glitters on Feb 28, 2009 16:26:27 GMT -5
Jasmine felt like she was failing, and quite horribly at that. She couldn't lie to Kara and tell her that maybe he survived, because it was just a known fact that whoever got sick in Ghiaccio back then died.
Instead, she leaned over and gave Kara a hug much like Kara had done for her earlier and said, "Don't think about it like that, dear. Think about it as you being the sole survivor of the plague of Ghiaccio, knowing all of those people had faith in you to save you. I think you have a story to write and share with the world, how so few hearts like your cousin's gave you the knowledge and power to rebuild what everyone once thought was lost."
She gave a bit of a giggle as she said, "I know I probably sound really dorky, but Ghiaccio isn't really gone because you're here, right? All of those people are still here because you are--but then, I believe in spirits, so I don't know if you'd agree or not. All I know is I have faith in you, and I believe your cousin and his efforts to help you will live on as long as you keep working hard."
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