#218: Write about a lie your parents told you.
My mother told lies as easily as she breathed, and almost as often. They were so many that I've forgotten most of them, put them out of my mind, as they deserved.
The only one that mattered was the first.
Understand-- for the first ten years of my life, she took an interest in me. I was her talisman against Arthur, her weapon against Lot. And she would speak to me gently, take me aside and teach me things, tell me I was hers and that nothing could take me from her. Told me, without so many words, that I mattered to her. She was my mother; of course I believed her.
Until my sister was born, the daughter that she'd wanted all along. Being sensible for ten, I relied on my brothers after that, and when I was sixteen I went to my father.
Who raised me up beside Gawain, and looked me over, and said that he was glad I'd come. I think that was the only lie he ever told me.
Mordred
Arthurian legend
174 words
The only one that mattered was the first.
Understand-- for the first ten years of my life, she took an interest in me. I was her talisman against Arthur, her weapon against Lot. And she would speak to me gently, take me aside and teach me things, tell me I was hers and that nothing could take me from her. Told me, without so many words, that I mattered to her. She was my mother; of course I believed her.
Until my sister was born, the daughter that she'd wanted all along. Being sensible for ten, I relied on my brothers after that, and when I was sixteen I went to my father.
Who raised me up beside Gawain, and looked me over, and said that he was glad I'd come. I think that was the only lie he ever told me.
Mordred
Arthurian legend
174 words