Chosen week day 1: Childhood
It was easy to forget how lonely she was, sometimes. People were always friendly and polite, and they always smiled. It wasn’t hard to smile back and pretend they were happy to see her because she was Colette, not because she was the Chosen One who would bring the oracle of Salvation. They were kind to her because they had placed all their hopes on her small shoulders, and though they smiled there was still a distance between them and her. She would become an angel one day, and that was the only thing they saw when they looked at her, the Chosen One who would regenerate the world.
Then she met someone else who was different. Someone else who stood apart from everyone else. He was from outside of town, and lived with a dwarf, and he never once gave her that same distant smile everyone else always offered. She had never been offered friendship before, only polite respect. The other children near her age would play if she asked them to, but never for long, and she was never invited to go with them anywhere. It wasn’t allowed, because she might get hurt. Lloyd never seemed to think twice about extending his hand to her though.
The two of them were not like everyone else, and she was happy to have someone that didn’t seem to care as much about the Chosen One and instead could see Colette. They laughed together, and even if he wasn’t allowed to go to the religious ceremonies, she knew he would be waiting and willing to listen afterward when she wanted to be reminded that she was Colette and not just the Chosen One.
Then the pair of them became a trio, adopting into their number another person who didn’t fit in with everyone else. He was an elf, an outsider and not the same race, but to Lloyd and Colette it didn’t matter. They readily accepted him and the year he moved to Iselia was the first time Colette ever had a birthday celebration just for herself, not a celebration of the approaching day of the Oracle.
She had always been expected to become an angel, but meeting these two had given that meaning. The notion had always frightened her a little before, the knowledge of what becoming an angel truly meant, but the idea of not protecting the world where everyone lived was scarier than becoming an angel. She would protect the happiness of Lloyd and Genis and the other people she cared about.
