Return
483 Words
Kira
I sat up quickly in my bed. Cold sweat beading my forehead and pouring down my back. I scanned my surroundings with panicked eyes, wondering what happened. I looked down at my hands and realized that... they were small!
No! How could this be? I am clearly 25 years of age. What is going on?
My room door burst open and I saw Stella, my maid, come into the room. "Young Mistress, how are you feeling?" she asked me.
I stared at her, evidently shocked. S-stella... she's alive! I thought she had died during the war against the Kritania Kingdom five years ago. Yet here she is. Alive, and smiling at me.
"Young Mistress?"
I smiled at her, tears welling up in my eyes. Stella is alive.
"I'm fine, Stella. What date is it today?"
Stella patted my head familiarly. "It is the 5th day of the half moon month, the year 327, Young Mistress."
Startled, I swung my feet off the side of my bed, forgetting I was now a small child once again. I couldn't believe it. I went back 15 years in time? How did that even happen?! I had died! It wasn't a dream. I felt the pain. The pain of betrayal of someone I loved and trusted. The pain of being stabbed through the heart. The pain of losing loved ones. The Durke's. They were like my family. How did this happen, why did time turn back?
Without realizing it, tears were streaming down my cheeks. Stella panicked seeing me cry like that. "Young Mistress, what's happened to you? Are you feeling pain anywhere?"
I shook my head, trying to clear my head from the painful memories that haunted me. I needed to figure out what was going on. How I became a 10 year old child once again while remembering everything that has happened to me before.
I was confused, and I didn't quite like the feeling. Though I suppose I should be thankful that I am alive after that ordeal.
"I'm okay, Stella. My head just hurts a little bit," I said rather meekly. I smiled at Stella reassuringly.
I lay back down in bed when Stella left to go get me breakfast as I told her my head was hurting she told me to rest and have breakfast in bed. I agreed as I felt I was currently in no proper state of mind to meet anyone from the past right now.
I pondered on what I should be doing. It seems like I've been given a second chance at life. Reincarnation. I would have never imagined that such magic existed. Truly surprising.
How should I live my life now, knowing all that I know. Of course it is definitely a positive to know of future events, however, it also feels extremely burdensome.
Whatever shall I do with this second life of mine...
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