Keira
“Hah, that’s funny… Ice. Hmpft.” Keira laughed a nervous little laughter and tried to make sense in what Kosey had just said but failed instantly. Control of ice – Kosey? And Keira was supposed to be aware of this… and up worse, she was supposed to share this gift with him? No this was madness.
“I can assure you it is not a joke, can you honestly tell me you have never felt stronger in the winter, have you never witnessed ice appear at the most unexpected places?” There was something about the way Kosey spoke that made Keira unable not to listen, something she couldn’t remember the old Kosey had been able to do. So Keira took it all in and put thought into his words, yes – it might be true, she had always felt more alive and strong during the winters and in difference to her peers she’d never been especially bothered with cold at all. And then off course, it was that one time when she’d… no, she hadn’t done it – but somehow – the lake had frozen.
Keira had been playing with Hector down by the lake, she’d recently turned 8 years old and Hector was teaching her how to fish – something their father had taught him but didn’t see fit for a future queen. It had been a beautiful day and Keira remember feeling so happy that Hector had promised to spend time with her the entire afternoon. Only then Kosey had come and told Hector he needed help with the horses… only Keira had known it was a lie, the little orphan had a better hand with horses than anyone Keira had met, not then not now. It wasn’t that Kosey was a bad person, the thing was – he was good a person, he looked up to Hector and Hector was like him, kind-hearted and talented. Keira had envied him because Hector always took him under his wing, taught him all sorts of things and treated him like his own brother. Keira sometimes felt like Hector forgot he had a sister and she’d gotten upset because he ran away from the one special moment he had promised for her. For he had, he was too kinds not to help a brother in need and he left her sitting by the water – giving her a warning to stay away from the water until he came back. It was just because he said so though, that Keira had chosen to do the exact opposite and had ended up falling in. Keira still remembered the feeling of hitting the cold water, feeling her entire body stiffen, being unable to move as she sank further and further down towards the bottom. She remembered how she’d breathed water and how it had burned in her lungs and how she finally had been able to fight her way up to the surface but how she’d drifted away from land and she had no powers to swim to land and so she kept being dragged under. What happened later, she’d always imagined being her memories being fogged with imagination but as she recalled it she’d wished so badly for feeling something solid beneath her feet and then her wish had come true. The lake froze, a few feet below the surface and up to very surface around her so that only a small pond of water formed where Keira lay panting. All she had to then was to climb out of that whole, up on the ice and crawl towards land where she finally passed out. When she woke up she was bedded down in her bed with several blankets in a room that had been heated up – nobody spoke of any frozen lakes and Keira had thought of it only to be a fogged memory and convinced herself it wasn’t true. In her every forthcoming nightmare she didn’t dream of saving herself but she was always just sinking towards the bottom, feeling her lungs fill with water. Ever since that day Keira had been dead afraid of water and she didn’t often try to remember that day so it had actually never occurred to her that what she’d imagined happened that day actually happened – maybe she did freeze the entire lake. Maybe Kosey was right. Maybe she had an affinity for ice.
“You really think I can control ice? How is that even possible? Neither of my parents owe the gift do they? So how?”
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