Vivacious Vindication

[phantax]

‘Your sun was always so much kinder than mine

Brighter

Larger

If only we could share a similar warmth from that distant star’

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In the upstairs attic of a hidden home somewhere in the countryside is a chest that currently houses several letters of note. The oldest of them is dated back to the final four months of 1826, while the most recent still has fresh ink with the top marked for fall of 1827. They are each sealed with black wax and a single V sign centered within the emblem.
The one atop the others placed there just this night has yet to be sealed, and with a deft hand and a curious eye, it could still be read by those it was never meant for.


Dear Father,

You wouldn’t believe how wrong they all are. My theories were, as usual, correct. Here in the warm glens and sunny streets I have discovered exactly what I had sought to find. The wonders here are doubled, and the timing couldn’t be more perfect. I hope you take pride in knowing that our final conversation before I left is one that was proven true. Your explorations, your stories, your trials, they are all what I will aspire to follow. As a sword on my own, I must be tempered, and as one aspiring for something great, I must be as a candle in the storm. Diamonds are only made from such pressure, and the greatest of evolutions occur only from facing terrible adversity.

Even if I face absolute failure by the end of things, I will know that this moment was worth it. To meet her, to see her, it was something that only you might have known. The others don’t understand us, nor do they understand the world. And how could they? Their imaginations are as limited as the walls of their manors. How can they see what we do when the grey clouds cover the night sky that might otherwise inspire them?

I pray our example sparks some change. Though I know such a transition isn’t your wish and desire, it has always been mine. It doesn’t do right to hide our feathers, or however that saying goes, nor can we ever find progress if we confine ourselves to enclosures of our own making.

Your challenge to me was to dream greater than the all of the rest,
I will not let you down.

Your sunshine,

W