Sometimes you can't be who you want to be and sometimes you can't do what you want to do.

That is the daily life of our anti-heroine. She is over powered with innate and learned magics and abilities but she does not have them to use them. she has them because she was born with them and she learns quickly. 

for her it is about acquisition not utilization. She wants to have power to understand power but she doesn't want to serve and protect. 

but it is out of her hands because she is Rachel, the Milana of Trannisa realm. her purpose is to maintain a balance dictated by the realm.

she is there when she has to be and when she is not needed she is off learning new things. 

so what happens when she is suddenly needed all the time? will her habit of avoidance become a mask of doubt and insecurity. 

so will she be a flawed being and pass the torch or will she endure in self doubt and constant insecurity. 

or is there a third option that has been there all along and completely out of her control?

"Exactly what is it that you think you are doing?" Abigail froze. She had been scrubbing the floors as the lady of the house had instructed her to do but the youngest daughter seemed to have a problem with this. 


Abigail had learned long ago not to explain anything. She was to listen only and never speak. Absolutely never speak. She remained perfectly still on all fours, waiting, but nothing happened and just as she was about to resume her work a shrill voice broke the silence. 


"Do you see mother! She is just here in the middle of the floor like the dog she is. I came in and this is what she was doing. She is so lazy. Why do we still have her here?"


"Now, now Stephanie, servants are very expensive and Abigail has been with us for a long time."


Chapter 271 - true harmony