200 word drabble: Solid Walls
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avatar_500 prompt #51, Door.
Summary: She isn't there for herself.
Solid Walls
One of her guards rushed forward to bend the door door open, and Yue stepped though, her skirt sweeping the floor, refined, traditional, and perfect. She was a princess, a living symbol, wearing a mask that every chief's daughter had worn since the day the palace rose from the ice.
And there was nowhere to get away from it. Against the walls of her chambers were heavy tapestries, empty porcelain vases from the Earth Kingdom, multi colored woven baskets from the Fire Nation, sculptures from her homeland. It was as grand as any princess's chambers in the Fire Nation, any royal wife's suite in Ba Sing Se. The Northern Water Tribe could have a princess, and dress her in fine fur robes and give her rooms like these to dwell in. How grand and sophisticated they must be.
Her hair is white, her people said to themselves when they saw her. The moon spirit has blessed her. How many other nations have their princess blessed by the spirits? How lucky we are to have her.
And when her guards sealed the door to her chambers for the night, leaving a blank wall, Yue felt her own unused, untaught waterbending answer.
avatar_500 prompt #51, Door.Summary: She isn't there for herself.
Solid Walls
One of her guards rushed forward to bend the door door open, and Yue stepped though, her skirt sweeping the floor, refined, traditional, and perfect. She was a princess, a living symbol, wearing a mask that every chief's daughter had worn since the day the palace rose from the ice.
And there was nowhere to get away from it. Against the walls of her chambers were heavy tapestries, empty porcelain vases from the Earth Kingdom, multi colored woven baskets from the Fire Nation, sculptures from her homeland. It was as grand as any princess's chambers in the Fire Nation, any royal wife's suite in Ba Sing Se. The Northern Water Tribe could have a princess, and dress her in fine fur robes and give her rooms like these to dwell in. How grand and sophisticated they must be.
Her hair is white, her people said to themselves when they saw her. The moon spirit has blessed her. How many other nations have their princess blessed by the spirits? How lucky we are to have her.
And when her guards sealed the door to her chambers for the night, leaving a blank wall, Yue felt her own unused, untaught waterbending answer.
