Run Away In the Night
Stage 2 Growth Solo
Stage 2 Growth Solo
Sriina felt like she could barely breath. Everything she had worked for - it was all falling away from her. Her chest felt tight, constricted, and heavy, impossibly heavy. In just one week's span she had lost everything.
Her fiancé, Kyruie, was gone. He had left and run away, leaving Sriina behind. That part was tough and hard to swallow, not because she had loved him, but because it had been their secret and their charade through the years. Both had come to the mutual arrangement that they would pretend to be together if only to be able to be with who they had always wanted. It had worked for them all these years, but that cover was gone now.
If it had been only that, Sriina felt that she could have lived her life relatively unchanged. She would miss Kyruie, they had become friends over the last six years, confidants even, but it wasn't the real reason her heart ached. When Kyruie left, so did Ashta. He had left her a letter, he wouldn't be back. And she felt like she had invisible hands wrapped around her throat, closing it in, and she couldn't breathe. She couldn't see clearly. It was over for them.
All these years they had kept their love a secret. Meeting in the middle of the night, sharing looks and exchanges when no one was looking. It had been hard on them both, but they had felt like they couldn't live without each other. Sriina had never felt so strongly about someone before. And he was gone. He had left without even saying goodbye and it ripped Sriina's heart from her chest.
She felt like she couldn't face those around her. She couldn't look at her parents, her neighbors, her friends. They all thought her heartbreak was from Kyruie, they talk about how upset she is over her lost husband, but no one would ever know her indiscretions and the pain it was causing her now. She had to go. She had to leave Matori and get out, get air. She couldn't breathe. She didn't have her head about her. She didn't even pack anything. It was already dark, already past midnight, and the only thing she took with her was her cloak. She felt her feet hit the cobbled roads in her town and she flagged down a carriage moving in the night.
"Are you leaving Matori?" she asked the stranger in the bare cart. He gave her a yes, asked where she was heading and if she needed a lift. "Anywhere but here." she responded and hoisted herself onto the back of the cart. The man wasn't local, she didn't know him, and didn't have to explain herself. That was good. She was able to brood in peace. Her face was ruddy from tears, but her eyes were dry now. She lifted the hood of her cloak to hide her face and leaned into the side rail of the back of the wagon. She didn't care where they went, but she hoped that when she opened her eyes again she would be out of Matori and someplace far away. Whatever she had thought about her life, however comfortable she had been with her hidden romance, it was all gone now. She had only herself.
[Sriina has not only found out that her husband has run away, but that her lover has also left leaving her with only a letter. She chooses to run away from her life and to ease her pain away from everything that was familiar to her.]
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