sorcha eckhart, district six | finished [cb]

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❨ Sorcha Eckhart ▲ Eighteen ▼ District Six ❩

Hesper Eckhart can't come to the phone right now.
Why? Oh!
Because she's dead.

[lucia valentine [d8] 🐞 tris]

Doorstep babies and threshold promises — she's learned how to build herself up from nothing.

Clay between her fingers and giggling sisters draped across her shoulders, she laughs like there's no clouds in her eyes. Just starlight. Because what more does a girl need to keep herself going than sisterhood? She might have lost her birth mother, but now she's got two in the place of one.

The only father she needs is the sky. Atlas has trained her to carry her burdens with grace, but Hera's teaching her how to forgive. A hundred reasons to shame the parents who gave her away, but one reason to be grateful is all it takes to conjure a small grin. She has a family worth more than she deserves.

A sad, dying clan of women with soft music playing through the halls of their crumbling manor; the ghosts come to dance with them each night. They call each other 'sister' when they bow and clasp hands, satin nightgowns billowing. It's not a perfect life, but it's home. It's hers.

Pottery is her talent, and it's suiting.
She knows how to find the beauty in broken things.
One day, she'll fix herself.

Days are numbered for Eckharts, but that's okay. Persephone told her that much. Nothing buried stays that way forever. A girl is nothing more than a seed; a flower will come with time. And her petals will be red, and her aroma will be inviting. What she has will be enough, and in the garden of her bones her siblings will dance. It's a love affair she was destined to have.

And she smiles. The stars die.
An Eckhart's best friend is a metaphor.
That's what Mama always says.
It'll all be okay.

The universe had to die a thousand times to be born once.

[lucia valentine [d8] 🐞 tris]

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"What she has will be enough, and in the garden of her bones her siblings will dance. It's a love affair she was destined to have."