Little Me and Big Me

A girl of age ten with long, straight, black hair runs around happily in her open field. She playfully waves a wand and practices her magic. She dreams of being a witch, a knight, a superhero! "Happy, luck, make everyone smile!" she would always say.

Round rosy cheeks like apples filled with warmth and joy. Little girl with high hopes as high as she can jump. She runs around energetically without a care in the world. She skips and prances and maybe does a cute little dance. Her world was big and perfect that filled her with possibilities.

Then that day came.

A cold darkness shoulds her warm skies and her strong trees wither with weakness. Little girl so young watches without fright hoping for starlight. The winds were cold, but a rising, unknown heat reaches out to that tiny figure. Flames surround the little girl in blue, who turns around and meets a taller figure.

The elder girl of age 14 had very short, curly hair and stood stiffly in her ashen battlefield. She held her sword in one hand and a crutch in the other, both made of steel and cold to the touch. She was once a great warrior filled with passion and determination, but now she yearns to be free from her pain. She dreams to move so freely as she did when she was little, but nothing could heal her wounded body. She once declared at the beginning of her war, "I want my old life back, so I can live my new one!"

Those weary eyes rested upon that pale-face girl, which were filled with past flames extinguished. She could not run. She could not skip. She could not walk. She could not sit. Yet she stands stills and walks on broken bones as fragile as eggshells.

She points her sword at the little girl and a dark portal opens. The little girl falls into the dark abyss of adulthood without realizing it. She reaches her hand out to the light, but the elder girl in black and red could not bend down to reach her. It hurts her legs.

A blinding rage engulfs the whole field and burns everything into ashes.

Here the elder girl stands forevermore.

"Nevermore."