Change Is Coming
*I sorted the papers into their proper files as checked off my to-do list that my predecessor left for me. I heard rumors that #Paradise joined the Brotherhood Training Program. It was all sorta of hush hush around here. It was my first day for me at the King’s Audience House and so far the only interaction I had was with Paradise’s father Abalone. So I kept my focus on learning my tasks and staying out of trouble.
I was forever a disappointment to my parents. I did not fit the mold of a daughter of the #Glymera, not by a long shot. I’m assuming my parents were strategizing, that if I work at the King’s Audience House that somehow the experience would alter my personality in some way. Perhaps humble me in a way that was more acceptable to them. Don’t get me wrong, I had no desire to change my personality … I was perfect as I am and was not a mindless sheep. I may not be soft-spoken, delicate or demure as my the #Glymera’s dozens + “debutants” that existed within the ranks of vampire upper-class hierarchy. But because I was descended from one of the six originating families … even more, was expected of me. FML. Especially in the eyes of the #PrincepsCouncil, well /former/ members of the council since its dissolvement.
So here I am, sorting papers and listening to a gentleman tell me how to make appointments and have guests fill out forms awaiting yet another task my parents deem “worthy” of my attention. All I wanted to do was dance, sing and create art, and perhaps teach kids to do the same thing. Now generally, that perhaps would have been acceptable to my parents had it not been my choice of “style”. They would have been tolerable had it been ballroom dancing or classical opera that I performed instead of the “deplorable” genre of hip-hop and R&B. But as a dutiful daughter, with very little choice, I went along with what my parents wanted to try and keep the peace in the family by keeping my activities in the dark.
I think I will take this opportunity and make the best of it. It was definitely better than sitting in etiquette, knitting, flower arranging lessons, etc. that I find such a bore. Perhaps I would get a glimpse of what the King has implemented and seen the evolutional changes myself first hand, the abolishment of blood slaves and the disbandment of the #PrincepsCouncil. That announcement that day was so upsetting and flabbergasting to my family as they panicked and started calling all the members of the council and founding families to discuss it. All the while I just sat quietly rejoicing and commending the King inside my head. I was really looking forward to being part of the metamorphosis of this new governing principle that was breaking traditions instill for centuries.