The Sightless Daughter: Tyesha Latoria

TSD: TL 4

Meanwhile, the child was walking on the hallway in the manor. She was looking for Janette. It was when she heard two maidservants in the house talking about something.

“I couldn’t believe that, Janette was a daughter of a powerful duke after all.”

“M-me too… that’s just unbelievable, if she’d get her revenge to the other maids that tried to mess with her here, I don’t really know what would happen… they must be scared right now of the thought.”

“That child is a little fortunate… being friends with her really.”

“Well even if they got a bit close, I don’t think she can bring the child with her… first they’re not even relatives and I don’t think Madam Alyona would agree to that.”

“Do you think Janette would go with her parents now?”

“Yeah maybe, if she’s a daughter of a powerful duke then why would they let her work as a servant in this manor right?”

As soon as the child heard the two of them, she immediately approached them.

“U-um… I would like to ask where Janette is right now.”

The two maidservant were a bit surprised when the child suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

“Oh… she’s on the receiving room.”

Without any word she turned her back to them and bolted towards the said room. Still catching her breath, she stood in front of the door. She was about to open it when she stopped short as she heard the conversation of Janette and her parents.

“You can’t!” Alyona roared. “She is my child, and you don’t have any right to bring her with you.”

“What is this Janette? You want someone else’s child?” her mother confused to Janette’s wish.

“What? Your child? You dare call her you child with how you treated her?” Janette retorted to Alyona.

“It is not your business! I will treat my child to whatever I want. I am her mother and it’s none of your business.”

“She’s right Janette. This is a matter within their family. We don’t have any right to interfere with that.” Janette’s mother said.

“And you call her a family of that child? When she whipped that child almost as if she was whipping a wild animal? You dare call yourself a mother?”

“That’s how I discipline my daughter.”

“Discipline? You call that discipline. It was more like torture! She is like five and you treat her like that? What kind of a mother are you?”

However, it was as if Alyona was mocking Janette judging how she reacts. “You don’t need to tell me what to do.”

“Why won’t you just let her go? If you can’t even give her a decent home to stay?” Janette crossed her arms. “Could it be that, you will lose your only hitting bag? You’ll lose something where you can let go of your dark side?”

Janette stepped a little closer to Alyona. “Or could it be, you are mad at her father? She is the one taking the hits instead. Every time you will get mad at something, you will not have anyone anymore to drag. What? Or are you just happy seeing your child being beaten like that by you?”

“Janette, stop!” Her mother held Janette in her shoulders.

“Oh! I see… I see…you are thinking of something more…if she would reach at a proper marriageable age, you will sold her to any man as long as you can get a benefit from it, right?”

“JANETTE ELYZABETH BERNARDON!” her father raised his voice calling her in full name with authority.

Janette could only bite her lips and was render silent.

“I know that you know what will happen if you’ll force your way to get that child. It is not just Marquis Hillbrant that would we be facing but the entire country of Nydilayia as well. The emperor of Asseraviel would not help us since this would considered as personal problem. On top of that, we are not in the right place to stand. The child is not ours.”

Janette taken aback when she heard that. She understood well what his father was talking. She could not do anything but remained quiet. It was that the child was listening on the other side of the door. Hearing the conversation, sucked out all her strength. She fell down and staggered to stand again.

Even if she could not understand all the things they were talking, she could understand one thing that she would not be able to come with her when Janette leaves.

“Now Janette, pack your things now. We are leaving shortly.” Her father ordered her.

Janette turned around and went out of the room. As she opened the door, she was surprised to find the child standing not that far from the door with her eyes filled with tears.

“Little miss?”

The child raised her head to Janette and there she saw and felt the sadness the child must have felt. She felt the same, and could not imagine leaving her behind all alone again. However, she had no choice.

“Janette!” The child completely understood that it is impossible for her to come along, and she just embraced Janette with all her might.

She could not say anything and just hugged the child. Janette’s absence in the manor became the spark of the child’s more miserable life.

~~~~ 5 YEARS LATER ~~~~

“YOU, BRAT! What have you done?” Alyona yelled, “Look what have you done to my dress!”

“Mo…mother, I’m very sorry. I just stumbled on something and accidentally poured the cup of tea unto you,” the child pleaded.

“Huh! No matter what you say, you still poured that god damned tea unto my beautiful dress.” She glared to the child.

“Mother, I’m sorry.” The child could not do anything but lower her head.

“You know you’ve done some mistake, right? You already know what it means, you must receive the punishment.” Alyonna stood up from her seat and approached the child.

“Please, mother. I… aww!” The child could not do finish what she was about to say. Alyona grabbed her hair and dragged to her small room. The maidservant never tried to look nor attempted to help her by any means. After all, everyone on the mansion knew that she was an unwanted child.

“You should be grateful to me since after all these years I never abandoned you on the streets. You unfilially child!” Alyonna did not stop grabbing the poor child’s hair.

“Mother, it hurts,” the child cried.

“It hurts, you say? Huh! Stop that drama! I haven’t done anything yet!” she yelled.

Alyona threw her down to the floor upon arriving at the child’s room. Her room was too narrow even the servants treated better than her who was supposed to be the child of the house. Her stepfather did not actually care about her and so as her own mother whom she shared blood and flesh. Nonetheless, she was accepted but treated worse than those servants treat.

“Go get my whip!” Alyona ordered the servants behind her.

“Yes, madam.” the servant replied.

In a couple of minutes, the servants came back with the whip. The child was horrified and became pale at the sight of the whip she grew up. Well, she always had seen the usual sight. She never saw her mother look at her tenderly or lovingly.

She would only see the disgust and hate in her mother’s eyes while looking at her. It was usual after all the years but she did not get used to it. It still horrified her poor young soul each time she sees that.

“Mother, I b…beg you please for…forgive me,” she pleaded. She was trembling in fear, but had the resolve to grab her mother’s feet and clutched unto them.

“Huh! You should have thought of it before messing with me,” Alyona kicked her away from her.

Alyona raised her hand started to whip the poor child as hard as she could. The child cried in agony and pain.

“Mother please…” she said while her tears streamed non-top from her worn and dull eyes.

“You should learn your lesson!” Alyonna yelled.

Alyona whipped her repeatedly to her hearts content. The nameless child balled herself up. Trying to protect her tiny body from the hellish treatment, she was receiving at this moment. However, no matter how she shields herself by just using her arms it still stings when the whip touched her skin.

This was her life ever since she was born. In every little mistake she made, she would beaten up and whipped as her punishment. Well, it still happens, even if she did nothing wrong at the first place. When her mother is in foul mood, she the only one she could see and vented all that anger to her.

Her body filled with sting in every part of it. She could not even move a single finger because of the pain. It was until she fell unconscious.

“Hey brat! I am not done yet. Why are you sleeping?” Alyona kicked her.

The nameless child barely had consciousness. She could not think but how does her mother treat her that badly. Asking herself as to why her mother could not love her as her daughter. She was so jealous to her half-sister and half-brother where her mother showed them her affection.

“Why?” The child’s voice could barely heard.

“Huh?” Alyona raised an eyebrow.

“Why… mother? Why ca…can’t… you treat me… like you treat brother and sister?” the child asked. Her voice was so weak that it barely reached her mother’s ears.

“Treat like your brother and sister? Hahahaha!” Alyonna erupted into laughter. “How can I treat you like I treat them? Blame your father then! Oh no, I was about to kill you when you we were a newly born child but the midwife stops me so blamed her also,” Alyona said.

“If only I could see Janette again,” she wished.

However, she realized that it was only a mere wish that will never happen. She waited for the past ten years but the child realized it would never happen. The child suddenly stopped crying upon realizing that no one in this world loved her not even her own parents nor herself. How can she love herself when she never experienced loved?

Maybe all of her tears have dried up and could not shed anymore. Suddenly, she could not feel anything anymore. She became numb, even the stings from the whip she can no longer feel it. Knowing her father abandoned her with her mother means he does not want her also. Her gazed at her mother lifelessly where you could not even see a glimpse of emotions on it.

Alyona threw the whip on the floor and gritted her teeth. She walked out of her room and leaved her daughter alone in the room in that situation. The child could not even move a little muscle in her body because all of the pain and heaviness she feel.

“Does even father love me?” the child asked to herself.

No one came to tend her wounds just as Janette did to her. Even she got a fever after beaten up no one came for her nor gave her a medicine. She survived all this time on her own will where she got used to it. The child got up early and did her daily chores.

Her sister called for her and so she went. Not only her sister but also all the people of the mansion was surprise seeing the new her. She iwas not usual her anymore, the one who smiles so lively no matter what hardship she gets through. Now the child, was a like a dead person walking. She has no emotion at all and you can feel her indifference.

“What is it sister?” the child asked indifferently.

“G… go get my doll it fell on the fountain,” her sister ordered.

She walked towards the fountain and look through the water. However, she could not see any doll beyond it. Her sister approached her behind and pushed down her head to the fountain. The child struggled to lift herself up as the hand on her hair made it difficult to do so. She focuses all her strength on her that was on the edge of the fountain and pushed her away. Her sister thrown to the ground. She faced her sister with glaring and glowing yellowish eyes.

Her sister and the servants were astonish terrified at the sight. She was only a child but she can gave enough vibe to scare them. Before they can even react, the child jumped on the top of her sister and clasped her neck tightly using her both hands. Her sister struggled to set free but the child has more strength than she does. The servants try to pull her away but she would not let go.

One of the servants running towards their mother and so Alyona arrive immediately and saw her sitting on the top of her sister while holding tightly her neck.

“YOU UNFILIAL CHILD!” Alyona yell horrified and quickly went to her two daughters.

She pushed the child away so hard that it made her let go and fell to the ground. Alyona quickly helped her other daughter to stand up.

“Mother… she…” she cried to their mother.

“You monster! What do you think you are doing?” Alyona yelled in rage.

The child stood up and met her mother’s gaze lifeless. Even her mother flinched upon seeing her expression. She remembers those deadly cold eyes looking at her as if she was a pest that should be get rid of.