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Spotlight: Recovery (Arjuna and Avalon pt10)
4 years ago
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“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ For a brief moment, there was an unsettling look upon the empress’ face, before she banished it away and smiled. “Your older brother, when he was three and four, if he was tired, he would tell me. I never had to coax him to sleep like I did with you and Palm.”
There was an odd specificity to her words and Arjuna did not know why. “Mother, why only when he was three and four? Did something about his mannerisms change at five?”
It was impossible for Avalon to think upon that time in her son’s life, without scowling at the memory and all that happened to her child that brought about such a dramatic change in him. She shook her head and tried to put on a more pleasant demeanor, but it was not a thing that she, a devoted mother, could do. But, it seemed that the child she spoke to now had forgotten those times. She was glad of that. Due to the circumstances that led up to her son’s change were largely due to what happened to the son she spoke to, now. Knowing him, he would blame himself for their father’s error.
“Dearest,” she said, finally, “it is better left forgotten. Don’t think of it and do not bring it up to him. To this day…I know his…his experiences, the ones he was forced to endure, still haunt him. Bringing it up would cause him great anxiety. He is much better now than he was back then and that’s enough for you to know.”
There was an odd specificity to her words and Arjuna did not know why. “Mother, why only when he was three and four? Did something about his mannerisms change at five?”
It was impossible for Avalon to think upon that time in her son’s life, without scowling at the memory and all that happened to her child that brought about such a dramatic change in him. She shook her head and tried to put on a more pleasant demeanor, but it was not a thing that she, a devoted mother, could do. But, it seemed that the child she spoke to now had forgotten those times. She was glad of that. Due to the circumstances that led up to her son’s change were largely due to what happened to the son she spoke to, now. Knowing him, he would blame himself for their father’s error.
“Dearest,” she said, finally, “it is better left forgotten. Don’t think of it and do not bring it up to him. To this day…I know his…his experiences, the ones he was forced to endure, still haunt him. Bringing it up would cause him great anxiety. He is much better now than he was back then and that’s enough for you to know.”
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(Make sure you read this comment in an obviously fake British accent)
And, judging by the lack of a father, what happened is elementary. Obviously, something happened to the father that took him out of the child’s life, and caused some sort of regret in the mother