Who: Rhapsody and Fiyero (and later O) Where: Rhapsody's Rooms in the Swan palace When: April 14th What: Rhapsody has things to deal with but Fiyero needs to check-in
The swan was currently in her room, where she almost always was now, fully dressed but curled up on her bed pretending to read. Pretending is the keyword since she hadn't turned the page of the book in front of her for at least a half-hour. Her mind kept wandering.
Rhapsody was finally all healed up from the ordeal with Ajax. Which of course had happened right after she had healed from what had happened with Fiyero. it felt like she had been injured for a million years. The flock healer had tried to talk to her at least a dozen times about how she was feeling. Rhapsody's hadn't wanted to talk. She had never considered herself a particularly strong person but at the same time, the back to back ordeals hadn't broken her. If anything she felt like she was seeing things as they were for the first time and honestly she had never felt more alone.
In the last few weeks, she had lost her boyfriend, who she loved more than she had words for. she had been kidnapped and returned, though it had been obvious that it wasn't her that the flock worried most for. She had gotten a new guard, who clearly didn't want to the guard of a disposable princess. And she had realized that was exactly what she was. Disposable. She had no role or purpose in the flock, she never would.
Rhapsody lazily turned the page in her book, even though she hadn't read a word on the page. She kept trying to force her mind to focus on options to fix how she was feeling. But she couldn't come up with anything. It felt useless... Like she was.