Day 57 Ruminating And Writing

Crystal

You could call it her destiny. A blessing. But she called it her curse. The crystals had been her mother’s, and now they bound her to serve the kingdom as they had bound her mother too. Among them was one crystal that could free her, but it would mean that the king and his kingdom would fall. People would suffer only so she could be free.

The king and his men played around her. They knew her duty. They knew her place. She was neither a servant nor a master. They thought they could ...