rachel elizabeth dare, five, writing "artist" on the "what do you want to be when you grow up?" poster in her classroom. rachel, five, getting her hair ruffled by her father and being told she'll be a wonderful artist by her mother.
rachel, nine, sitting at her brand-new school laptop, exploring the internet. rachel, nine, radicalised. rachel, nine, telling her father what he's doing is wrong. rachel, nine, being dismissed. rachel, nine, trying harder.
rachel, ten, realising her father doesn't care. rachel ten, angry.
rachel, eleven, in middle school and away from the familiar. rachel, eleven, too weird too angry too loud too quiet for millview middle school. rachel, eleven, lonely.
rachel, twelve, realising she sleeps in a bed and lives in a house and eats food paid for with blood money. rachel, twelve, guilty. rachel, twelve, dreaming of marriage and a man whose name will replace the dare after the rachel elizabeth.
rachel, thirteen, choosing a tree-planting charity for school community service hours. rachel, thirteen, too rich too priviliged too weird too delicate too naïve too weird for her coworkers at the charity— all except one. rachel, thirteen, friends with a seventeen-year-old boy. rachel, thirteen, falling in love with a seventeen-year-old boy. rachel, thirteen, in love with a seventeen-year-old boy and her love is reciprocated. rachel, thirteen, giddy. rachel, thirteen, groomed wooed. rachel, thirteen, lonely and isolated, and thinking this boy is her savior. rachel, thirteen, with a boyfriend.
rachel, fourteen, in highschool and determined to reinvent herself, to be normal. rachel, fourteen, in highschool and one step closer to adulthood. rachel, fourteen, in highschool and one step too close to adulthood for the boy. rachel, fourteen, discarded. rachel, fourteen, heartbroken. rachel, fourteen, realising the boy was not her saviour. rachel, fourteen, realising she was groomed. rachel, fourteen, thinking she will never love again. rachel, fourteen, with friends that like but do not know her, and who think she is normal. rachel, fourteen, tired of being normal. rachel, fourteen, weird and friendless again, but free. rachel, fourteen, signing up for community service again, planting trees and working at soup kitchens and performing for fundraisers. rachel, fourteen, swearing to herself that any friends she makes at community service will be her own age. rachel, fourteen, pouring half her pocket money into art supplies and the other half into charity. rachel, fourteen, still guilty to her bones. rachel, fourteen, being run through with a sword by a green-eyed boy. rachel, fourteen, realising she is not weird, that there are others who see what she does. rachel, fourteen, with friends again, who are just as weird as her. rachel, fourteen, doodling rachel jackson on her notebooks and banishing the seventeen-year-old boy from her mind.
rachel, fifteen, arguing with a grey-eyed girl. rachel, fifteen, learning about dryads and feeling sick to her stomach. rachel, fifteen, wondering if her father would still do what he does if he knew about dryads too. rachel, fifteen, thinking that he would. rachel, fifteen, telling her parents she wants to study art. rachel, fifteen, not getting her hair ruffled or being told she'll be a wonderful artist but being set up for a life as a society wife. rachel, fifteen, trapped. rachel, fifteen, leading her friends through a maze. rachel, fifteen, scared for her life.
rachel, sixteen, with nightmares dreams of the future. rachel, sixteen, bold. rachel, sixteen, kissing the green-eyed boy's cheek. rachel, sixteen, having a dream. rachel, sixteen, bargaining with her parents. rachel, sixteen, willing to trap herself for her friends. rachel, sixteen, realising the green-eyed boy is in love with the grey-eyed girl. rachel, sixteen, heartbroken again. rachel, sixteen, vowing to be an eternal maiden. rachel, sixteen, pledging herself to phoebus apollo. rachel, sixteen, freeing her predecessor. rachel, sixteen, with eyes that glow green and snakes of smoke spilling from her mouth. rachel, sixteen, tied irrevocably to this world of gods and monsters.
rachel elizabeth dare, pythia— the pythoness.
rachel elizabeth dare, high priestess of apollo.
rachel elizabeth dare, the oracle of delphi.
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