Hide your fires

[MelonBallZ]

I remember.. 

..Ashes falling..

..like snow.

I remember..
   

The starlight.
 
 

 
How it set the thatch alight and shattered bricks.

The world I had once known was gone in a brilliant flash..

And he enlightened me.

It was your fault this happened.




It had always struck me as strange how as time went on mother and father began to keep us in the house more often. I could see the suspicion in their eyes, the concern, the worry.

For some reason mom and dad always had more gold than anyone in the village and they started hiring guards. They would rather stay around our home than go with the peddlers!

And.. It only became worse after Armand died. Oh, Arry.. If only you could see what I can do. What we could have done together.

If they had not made that promise.. If they had not gone back on their word..

Well, no sense in focusing on ifs!
 


  
 
We got on a boat and went to this strange land where people's names were different.
  
Mom and dad told me Armand was a family name. Mine was too, but I never liked being called Vinny.
  
Well I thought for a long time on what I wanted to be called instead and it was under my nose all along!
  
  

  
 You can call me Oznan!
  

It's good to be back.