Lorraine Dieu-Le-Veut //d4// done

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Lorraine Dieu-Le-Veut

17 years old - optomist in a pessamistic world - pirate
Half sister to Circe Murdock

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Family is a funny thing.

To some they are an inspiration, young faces dead locked in their desire to be just like the ones that have come before them. Following blindly the path of footsteps, cursed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Trauma leeching off the faultless victims from one generation to the next. A charming voice of a mother figure, promising the young that all will be fine. Singing an enchanting song until her younglings laid peacefully in her arms out of harm’s way.

My mother never held me. I would throw a coin into the crashing waves hoping she would one day run her fingers through my hair vowing to protect me against the world. Fearless in the face of a hopeless wish, the shore was now dry, tide pulling back into the ocean.

Home was a more humorous concept than family.

A place one could always return too with the warm embrace of safety welcoming them back with the first foot in the door. A fire burning in the corner and the smell of food cooking on the stove flooding all your senses.

For longest time I had longed for a place to call home and family of my own. The nights were cold down by the pier with danger lurking on every corner. Hope was scarce as the light of anything good had died in most of our eyes. Only mine shined bright and golden, forever believing in the magic of the ever-moving waters.

A year ago, the impossible had lost its hold. As the musician played his tune, my feet light on the ground as I danced with my skirt twirling in the sunset. A woman had placed a bouquet of golden poppy flowers at my feet. My eyes met hers and that is when I knew I had found the home I had yearned for. A family, reinventing the word for themselves, to call my own.

I am convinced all because I never had given up hope and neither had Adriana Dieu-Le-Veut. Hope that one day, she would find me.

A year later I found her with her drink, eyes glued to the screen with deadly intentions. Circe’s head toppling from her shoulders, and a sigh worth a million words escaping Adriana’s lips.

“I really thought she would have won” I placed my hand on her shoulder only for her to shake it off.

“You and everyone else.”

There was pain in her voice, almost unrecognizable as she plucked the petals off the poppy flower she held in her hand.

“She was your sister.”

I nodded my head; we were all family in the Kraken’s Cove. One bounded together by choice and not blood. Circe had been different, ungrateful and took it all for granted. The only one with more riches than the ocean, never knowing the cold breeze of sleeping under the night sky. It was no secret she often left a sour taste in our mouths, with her holier than thou stare echoing in her golden eyes…The very same shade as mine.

Adriana cupped her hands around my head, fingers gracing my jawline before running her fingers through my hair.

“When I was seventeen, I gave birth to a baby girl, one with golden eyes and tight curls.” There was a small pause as she smiled with pain and regret, raw and emotional. I wanted to believe it was all genuine, that our fearless captain was capable of heartbreaking emotion. Every bone in my body ached, hoping what she was saying was nothing more than another one of her stories. “I was not ready for a child, but you had no father willing to take you in. I hoped the docks would have raised you to be a fighter the way they had raised me.”

I backed away slowly…my world falling apart. The loss of a sister, one I never had cared to know. A mother replacing me after the one she wanted was dead.

“Do you love me?” I asked the question I did not want to know the answer to. Choosing to believe the tear filled smile was confirmation of everything I would want to hear from a mother. In the end, she did find me after all those years.

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