Ever since I was a kid I've never been quite good at expressing myself or my preferences, I was of noble birth and naturally good things always come to me. My family looked up to me with high regard, why? Cause I was an unprecendented genius, for a kid by age I had an exceptional IQ that could rival most adults and professors, I was a golden egg.
But stuff like that was always a blessing and a curse, I had an overactive brain that always analyzes everything and all this before doing anything. I missed out on most of my childhood cause of it, I considered it a curse and it wasn't long till I started believing it was one. From the window in my room high up in the castle I could see other kids my age enjoying picking flowers and chasing each other with bugs, I always find it repugnant, though I knew deep down that's how normal kids are supposed to behave and it irritates me.
I wasn't necessary bullied by my siblings but I was not welcomed either, well it's always my fault, I do tend to put on an air of the all knowing when ever I'm around them, so obviously they'd push me away, I spent my years in my really massive room decorated with all the books I wanted, with nothing else to do I filled my head with knowledge upon knowledge.
It was around 1440CE , I was 20 years old at the time I decided to leave my family's luxury life and find my own path, I was greeted with objections from my parents of course, they'd have great plans for me, I mean why wouldn't they on several occasions I kept the family from ruins by Intervening when they were about to make terrible decisions, it was a minor and convinent task to while away time. They didn't let me leave so I ran away from home, though with my suitcase and necessities. I was a scrawny nerdy girl with jet black hair and on my own I couldn't get far on my own, it wasn't easy, carriages splashed, I was yelled at while crossing roads, almost robbed multiple times, giving up was never an option, I knew these outcomes were a possibility the moment I decided to leave luxury behind.
I was prepared to sleep on the streets for the third time that week when I met him, he definitely wasn't the finest man on the planet, but he definitely was an angel the moment he decided to help me. If I could call it that, I sat on my bench preparing to slumber when I saw him standing in front of the street a leaflet in hand, he looked distressed and extremely worried, but it wasn't my place to do anything or offer any consolation, it was until I heard him mutter, then where can I find someone for the job that it piqued my interest. I didn't speak but stared at him intently hoping by some miracle he notices me, and by the god's he did, his blue eyes came to rest upon me as a sat on the bench my luggage as a pillow, my blanket laid as I ready to slumber, he looked at me for a while then said,
" the streets are dangerous it's best you find somewhere else,"
I stared at my feet, stupid me, instead of being robbed I handed all I had to the robbers, better than being stabbed at the very least, at the moment I was as broke as a doll, though not a very expensive one.
"If you don't have anywhere to go I could get a place for you," he continued.
"For free? I asked.
" He stared at me for another while, probably wondering who in the streets starts asking questions when being offered help? If you're worried I'd try to take advantage of you I think-
"No I'm not worried about that,"she said, I have a knife, but I'm talking about why are you going to do it for free, shouldn't you at least offer me a job or something, so I can earn my keep, I mean from your outfit you don't seem poor.
"The man stared at her for a while, prolly wondering if he had ever met a girl so bizarre, instead of accepting the help like most girls do when in need, she asks for a job?
It took a while before it suddenly dawned on him, the wind probably helped as it blew the leaflet off his hands, he picked it up and started at it, then back at me.
Yeah, you're in luck,he said dusting the leaflets ,if you're educated at least, I might have a job for you.
" Do I come off as uneducated, she scoffed.
"Well you definitely seem qualified just from the way you speak and carry yourself, he smiled. Let's go you might as well begin your job tonight.
That evening purely by chance, I met the angel that saved me off the streets, it was a chance encounter and didn't expect more from it.
He didn't explain the details, but the way he spoke and acted I quickly deducted he was around my age or younger, according to him he wasn't in any particular situation to bring me home, but he could offer me a job and a place to stay if needed. Seeing an opportunity out of the streets I agreed, he brought me to an orphanage where the former caretaker had died of small pox, naturally I was terrified of the disease, but decided to stay regardless, at least it's better to get sick on a bed than on the streets. My job was fairly simple and it comes with an apartment big enough for me and a lover if I ever had one, I was to oversee the orphanage and practically become the kids teacher or tutor whatever it was, of course I'd be paid, seeing no real downside aside from the smallpox plague I agreed, he thanked me with a warm smile, his golden hair highlighting his blue eyes and handsome features, he left me with a little bag of cash and lots of thanks.
After he had gone, I sat on my new room's desk looking at the bag of cash and my neatly furnished apartment, no doubt the woman who died also used it too, I should be thanking him instead, I thought as I laid on the large poster bed, it was comfy and smelled strangely of Lillys, Smiling as I doze of I couldn't help but thank the man once more. The days and months following was fairly easy, the kids obviously shocked at first to see me rather than their usual care taker took a fairly long time to warm up to me, after that it was fairly easy, their classes only composed of two subjects, English and mathematics, no other was needed currently. The man or should I say boy at this point kept visiting us daily, he always hanged around me in my lab, Yes I had a lab, he didn't mind as long as I didn't put the children in harm's way. We chatted daily each time he comes to visit, to be honest I grew to like him, but being as I was I couldn't let those feelings leak out, it's just how I was built. Even though his advances were known towards me, I couldn't determine his Intentions or motive, I could deal with feelings and my brain naturally refuses to acknowledge it. He didn't give up though, occasionally I see him fully dressed in armour, sword by his side and heavily exhausted, like using I offer him coffee admist experiments, he always accepts with gratitude, to be honest I don't drink coffee but always kept them cause of him. I didn't know what had become of me at the time.
Monsters were terrorizing the kingdom, and apperantly the man was one of the strongest knights in the kingdom, so he was always worked to the bone, they was a time he rarely visited and I started missing his presence, I still couldn't notice the clue as to what I was feeling. He came as usual played with the kids, talked about books and laugh with me, he was quite knowledgeable, though he pales in comparison to me, I felt like he studied to have something to talk to me about, still then I didn't notice how I felt.
Sometimes he started coming with a worried look on his face, apperantly the monsters are mutating and they was a singular power now ruling them, basically the humans were losing, and like humans the greedy was exploiting of all this and making themselves richer, it was then I started making it, it was a contingency plan and I didn't know if it would work, I didn't possess any magical power and below average in strength, but I've basically read all the books about monsters and magic, so what if I'm able to turn back time, before the humans started loosing and before the monsters even appeared. It was a fleeting thought but nevertheless I started working towards it, I didn't tell Carl, he didn't need to know, he had a lot on his plate I thought sadly as he slumbered on my lab's desk, I covered him with sheets even then I didn't notice how I felt and went into my room to continue my research.
The orphanage was attacked luckily, the children weren't badly hurt, I had hit my head so hard I was practically bleeding down from my head down, it couldn't see straight, we weren't attacked by monsters, but the very same humans Carl was protecting, they raided our food reserves and took everything, trashed my lab left, lucky my contagency was already done and on me all the time. I looked for Carl round the orphanage yelling his name, he didn't respond, I went to the gates and it was then I realized, seeing him lying there on the dirty bloody ground riddled with arrows, I realized, his face that of a peaceful slumber, he was dead. I felt a giant thug on my heart, did I always feel this way? Yes! My foolish always analyzing brain responded, I was broken, despite having two functional legs I couldn't walk by crawled towards him on the floor, still in armour, I wished I had figured my feelings sooner, I wish we had dated, I wish I had said those words,"I love you" I couldn't stop crying and clinging to his lifeless body, why now? why didn't I realize sooner? I hate myself,"he wasn't coming back and I knew it, that's what shattered me even more, the kids couldn't do anything but cry, I was crying , there were crying , no one to console the other, then I felt it In my pocket, a glass bottle I had created and kept, I tore my lab coat and my pants to get it out of my pocket, the blue liquid glittered in the bottle, I stared down at it for long, then opened it and drank the entire bottle, I feel beside him instantly twitching in pain, I held Carl's lifeless hand as I throbbed. What was I expecting, my chemical I made to turn back time on a whim was going to work? Never, the world is not that generous, the kids cried even louder thinking I had drank poison to kill myself, I could tell them what I drank, the pain was getting significantly worse, and I was practically blinded by it, but I pales in comparison to finding out he's dead,I held onto Carl's arm tightening my grip, maybe if I died at least I'd be able to be where he was, it was the only thought that kept me going till I faded Into the darkness looming in.
Sarah woke up with a jolt, she stared around frantically,I just had the weirdest dream, I didn't know I was still capable of that, she thought. She got up from her elephant sized bed and catching something blue on the mirror she proceeded towards it.
"What's going on," she said feeling her face and barring her now sharp teeth, her blue hair falling down her face in waves.
"I could have sworn I didn't dye my hair, no! I definitely didn't," so what's going on, why's my hair suddenly blue?
She sighed," my siblings are going to have something else to taunt me with if I don't find a way to get it off, lucky for me I had black dye's lurking around somewhere in my cabinet.
She rummage through her gigantic wardrobe in her night gown scattering and throwing out gowns after gowns, beakers and wierd green substances in bottles, she got up at last, a bottle of a very dark substance in her hand.
"I was once fascinated by how dye's work, turning people hair's black and all but that curiosity didn't last as soon as I got hold of a lot of them, I had dyed my cat black, the house dog black, and even tried dying my already black hair black, I was scolded none stop by my parents, cause when I finished my entire room was almost black as night, she said turning the liquid in her small hands and staring at it Intently.
"She turned the substance in her tea cup and mixed it with the spoon that came along with the cup, she took out her hair brush dipped it in the black substance and applied it on her hair. After the scolding I learnt how to do it properly of course. She stared at herself strangely in the mirror half her hair partially black, the other ocean blue, she made to apply the rest and turn her hair completely black but the most bizarre thing happened, the dye was fading into her hair making it ocean blue again, she stared Indifferently as the dye vanished completely. She put down the brush and dowsed my self in the dye, I watched fascinated as my hair sucked it all up, leaving only my skin and nightgown black, but my now blue hair still shone blue.
"What is going on?"
"I woke up with razor sharp teeths and blue hair?" How bizarre is that she laughed. Mum's going to kill me.
I'm eleven right? She thought the felt herself, I feel a deep pain in my chest. I'm hurting and I'm hurting bad, was it that dream? That dream? She thought in a daze, Carl was it? It was a stupid dream honestly, I don't think I'll ever experience something like that, but why does it still hurt? What's going on? I've never felt this way before.
She sat facing her desk for a while, staring at her blue hair and now sharp teeth," the blue liquid in the dream, she said to herself touching her face and teeth. Yesterday my hair definitely was black and it was in the dream too, but everything change when I drank that stuff to turn back time, so taking it all into consideration it's safe to say it was a success. That definitely wasn't a dream, and if it wasn't that means Carl and the kingdom is to start crumbling 12years from now. Feeling my chest pounding by the mention of his name, confirms it. I'm not doing it again, dissing everything up as a dream, I know the future now, and I'm planning on using it all to my advantage, she stared at her small hands and chest, she stood up on the chair and stared at her legs, hurry up and grow up so I can go get Carl. Looking at her puny build she couldn't help laughing at herself," I definitely wasn't carrying anything massive when I was older, but I didn't think I was this skinny when young," she laughed loudly.