04-28-2015, 05:15 AM
I may be WAY off base here but I read this as seen from the point of view of a 12 year old child sent away to a cold forbidding boarding school.
This is a troubled child, one who has hurt herself in the past, if only to make her physical pain mask the other pain inside her.
Now age 12, she feels cast away, banished by her parents to a cold forbidding place... a new boarding school or someplace worse perhaps? a place for special children?
The "He" in the first line I read as the School Headmaster (or perhaps the warden of the place she has been sent to) tellein her to say goodbye to her parents who must now leave.
The "Them" I read as the parents who dropped her off / left her here and have driven off.
The nails in her arm are of course her own.... just something to mask the pain.
Nicely done. I enjoyed the read.
-Psyve
This is a troubled child, one who has hurt herself in the past, if only to make her physical pain mask the other pain inside her.
Now age 12, she feels cast away, banished by her parents to a cold forbidding place... a new boarding school or someplace worse perhaps? a place for special children?
The "He" in the first line I read as the School Headmaster (or perhaps the warden of the place she has been sent to) tellein her to say goodbye to her parents who must now leave.
The "Them" I read as the parents who dropped her off / left her here and have driven off.
The nails in her arm are of course her own.... just something to mask the pain.
Nicely done. I enjoyed the read.
-Psyve