The reality is, I’ve been told worse.
Growing up and forced to be among other children outside our family, I never really mixed well with them. I was polite when needed, spoke only when absolutely necessary, but otherwise was unreachable to all.
That’s how my father wanted it and that’s how I did it.
Many vile things have been said to my face and worse when it’s behind my back, but father always saw it as a way to train us, to steel our hearts and to keep our emotions in check. He would often have trainers and teachers be extremely harsh and critical of us, s c r e a m i n g in our faces and belittling every little thing we did, all so we could master our expressions and feelings even under pressure.
Aurora was the most emotional of us all, the one father found most disappointing of
