kane leaves

bellow is more random writing that i have been doing today. as is the case with this blog, i am not sure where it's going, we shall see. both random pieces of writing feel like they are going to end up in the same place, well that's how it feels right now.


Rhea closed her eyes and leant back on the pillows. The rain was a steady patter on the roof, the light of the oil lamp a hint from behind her eyelids, the wicks smoky scent a tang in her nostrils and on the back of her tongue. Rhea sat in the bed and let her mind wonder over the events of the day. Her brother’s sudden departure, her uncle’s anger, her father’s quiet disapproval. Rhea had tried to ask her mother what had happened, why had her brother left like that, barely stopping to sling a pack over his shoulder, his only farewell a wave as her raced across the courtyard and out the barely opened gate. But her mother wouldn’t tell her, saying only that after receiving a letter he’d argued with her uncle and father and had left. Rhea pressed, but her mother would say no more. Rhea was confused and hurt that her brother, Kane, her elder by merely three years, would leave without a word of goodbye. They were the closest of their parents five children, the eldest, Tan, was 15 years older than Rhea with children and a farm of his own. Her elder sisters, Mariah and Celsey, were also married and had moved to their husbands villages, Rhea barely saw them. But not so with Kane, they shared each other’s every confidence, or so Rhea had thought. What could be so important that he would argue with both her father and uncle, what would make him leave like that? Without a word to Rhea, not a syllable. It wasn’t like Kane.

Rhea sighed, and opened her eyes, she knew she would get no sleep tonight, not with worry and hurt warring in her mind. She snuffed out the oil lantern all the same and scrunched down the bed until she lay with her head on the pillow. She closed her eyes, in a pretense at sleep. Just before dawn’s first light touched the sky, she finally feel exhausted into sleep.