Summary : [1]
The Clouds of the day were still covering the radiance of the sun but not enough to cover its morning light. The day might not be radiant; still the world continues.
As the little dreamer was about to wake up from her bed, a high pitch angry voice cut through the house "Mom, I got an 8/20 in my English homework, mom I told you that she would mess it up I am sure she didn't even take the time to do it properly, I knew it, I can't count on her" Eva's youngest sister said.
"Ooooh" the mother sighted "this girl, she has always been so selfish, she didn't even take the time to do it, she just wanted to get rid of it quickly"
Eva heard from her bed, as she was thinking about the three nights, she took out of her day to finish that English project for her to make sure it was well done.
It was during the month of Ramadhan.
She would come back from college, her mom would immediately call her panicking and rush her into the kitchen, she almost never had time to catch a break, "Eva I need your help now please, otherwise diner is never going to be ready in time for the athane", so obviously she would change her clothes, washes her hands and immediately come down to the kitchen, then she would wash the dishes before and after diner, cause her sister was studying for the baccalaureat (a final exam that every high school student need to take to go to college), then after that she would take a break of an hour then work on her sister's project while leaving her projects untouched.
Then she would sleep, wake up, and fast the entire day again.
Meanwhile, Eva had no energy left for her own homework. It was an assignment that required writing code in Python, a language she had never used before. She tried to sit in front of it, tried to focus, but her mind felt full and heavy, as if there was no space left to think.
Exhausted and overwhelmed, she asked a friend if he had already done the assignment. She planned to copy parts of it and change them, just enough to make it her own. It was not something she was proud of, but at that moment, it felt like the only option she had.
Her teacher was strict and attentive. During class, he asked each student to explain their work in detail. When it was Eva's turn, she couldn't. She stumbled, unable to justify choices she hadn't fully made herself.
The shame came quickly. Not because she didn't understand, but because she knew she could have. She wasn't incapable. She was simply exhausted. If she had been given the time, the quiet, the energy, she would have done it properly.
But all of that had already been used up elsewhere.
"You can never ask her anything" she heard as she was sobbing in her bed feeling emptier after every falling drop. "Again" she thought.
At night when everyone was sleeping, she went to the terrasse to contemplate the shining stars in the dark sky, a cloudy sky that didn't allow many lights to be seen.
"You should have never been the one to leave" she thought, as the cold wind gently pressed her cheek.
The sky was getting cloudier as it was shutting off its lights, the cold was making the desperate soul number as she was still hoping for a star to be seen, but clearly there was nothing worth seeing anymore, there were no reasons to remain in this ice cold terrasse. Her attempts to numb the pain withing her chest failed. It seemed like she could no longer make the pain disappear; it was too anchored within the veins of her heart and soul.
The image that the dreamer projected was making someone else's heart suffer, after all when two hearts are linked the sufferance is equally shared, or maybe even more.
Behind the roof of the terrasse was hiding a cold looking black headed man whose mind thought that the soulless woman that passed by won't take much time before ending up like a long blond-haired woman that he couldn't protect.
"She needs to be reminded," he said before coming back to the palace.
"Is she alright?" Jacob stoically asked
"She is still alive for now, but she does need a break"
Jacob took a big breath. "Got it" he answered "I think he is in the climbing room"
"Well, call him, she needs to feel safe again" he added with a smile
[1] After the princess’s death, tension rises within the palace as Arnold and Rayane discuss who truly deserves condolences and whether the princess’s sister already knows the truth.Rayane, a stoic protector with a painful past, refuses to act hastily despite pressure to awaken the last heir of the Tagliditse family and restore the kingdom’s rule.As snow falls over the castle, he leaves with quiet determination resolved to protect the kingdom’s final source before she falls from her Terras.