Role

Chapter 2

In her mind, she was transported to her past and before her stood her mother,
trying to teach her the animist magic that came so naturally to her mother, but
not Arietta. Night after night, day after day, to the neglect of all else.
Yet the magic would not come.

The scene shifted and Arietta was surrounded by kids her age, shoved and
pushed, laying broken on the ground, bullied and unable to defend herself
from lack of physical training her mother neglected.

She cried out to her father, and in this strange reality that was her
Haunting Rhapsody, she saw her father as she last remembered him. The
gluttonous priest of Morius who could no longer move, her father, was deaf
to her pleas. Kicks rained down upon Arietta and yet he did nothing.

Desperately she sought for the next line: "Fight with them and die with
them, your fate you will ensure"... and she stepped into the present, still
trapped in her mind's vision.