Drabble: Rachel's Shadows

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Title: Rachel's Shadows
Characters/Pairing: Rachel, mentions R/K and Zedd
Length: 174
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: for Marked
Summary: Rachel isn't afraid of the Mord'Sith.

 

Rachel’s Shadows

I’m lost again. In danger. I hate how helpless I feel.

But I remember Richard and Kahlan, who are so brave—and Ruben (his name is Zedd, but he’ll always be Ruben to me) who made me be that brave, too.

“Hush, it’s going to be okay,” I say softly to one of the other girls.

But the scary woman in red is there—“Why don’t we start your training right now?”

I know what she’s talking about—everyone does. Grown-ups always say the girls the Mord’Sith have taken are dead, but that’s a lie. They just wish they were.

I can relate—or I could when I was with Princess Violet.

It’s funny—back then, if the Mord’Sith had come and taken me, I would’ve been glad. Even Darken Rahl would have been a better Master than Violet.

Now I just wish Martha were here. She loves me—I’m not alone anymore.

And Richard and Kahlan and Ruben will come save us. So I’m not afraid of the shadows.

Never again.