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Kenni managed to abandon the other girls easily, their questions tiring, and the elder girls' taunts childish. Only a select few actually believed her story and she hated to admit she was crumbling under their words. But as always she straightened her back and held her chin high so that her neck was always showing, just as Fayvus had taught her. He always said her mind was open to more than those around her. Today, his words rang true.

Slipping through the narrower halls of the cathedral, Kenni twisted a piece of her crimson locks as her thoughts raced through her dream. Despite her solid belief that what she had seen had definitely transpired...doubts began worming their way behind her eyes into her mind, darkening her confidence.

But when she reached her quarters and pushed open the door with force she had not been aware she was building, she felt the stong of tears behind her eyes. Then she saw Fayvus, the only true father she had ever known. And she slammed the door shut, ran to him among the echo of the slam and fell to her knees as she clutched at his robes and buried her face in his knees.

"I cannot do this," she managed to choke out, tears sliding onto his clothes. "It is too much for me."

It didnt take long before she realized how she must look and she pulled away, horrified by her actions. Standing straight and adjusting her blue sleeves, she stepped once away, wiping at her eyes. "Apologies...I...lost myself...I..."

Fayvus' eyes held no criticism and she caught her heaving breath, forcing a smile. "Such...a child I must seem to you..."