Lisa was the princess of the highest kingdom. She loved her sister dearly. They loved to play make believe games in the night around the castle together. Lisa loved her fondness for imaginary play. She soon discovered her fondness for creating new world and escape. She also had a brilliant gift for thinking and seeing patterns. Her sister claimed that there was no one else like that in the world. With this gift came a heightened sense of awareness, she could hear and feel everything around her more than anyone else in the kingdom ever could. When the noises got too loud, she would cover ears run away. Sometimes she would scream and thrash to make whatever was bother her lesser. Her parents were quick to see the negatives and they feared that she would one day hurt her sister.
So they looked her up in her room and tried to make her control her imagination and control her mind. But the need for control only increased her anxiety and made it worse. In fear, her parents never let her out of her room and never let her play with her sister. The once best friends grew further and further apart and began to resent one another.
With her 18th birthday came her coronation and came the big celebration. Lisa was allowed outside of her room and into a big crowd of people for the first time in over ten years. She was anxious, which only made the noises around her louder and her imagination run wilder. Everyone mingled with one-another, while Lisa remained in the corner, she did not feel like she connected with anyone there, all that chatter simply felt like bees buzzing in her head. It was hard not to drown it out. Suddenly, her sister came to her with a strange man she’d just met asking for her blessing. Lisa could not give her sister her blessing for a man she’d just met, not matter how much she loved her. Outraged, her sister yelled at her and accused her of being unfair. She accused her of shutting her out and being cold-hearted. Her voice got louder and louder and Lisa was having a hard time containing herself. She finally snapped and yelled to the high-heavens “Enough!” With that she stomped her feet and through her hands up in the air in rage of all the noise and all the people in the room. Everyone took a step back from her in shock. How could they ever trust such a volatile queen? Devastated, Lisa ran right through the castle and out of the kingdom, never wanting to show her face again. She ran away in hopes of finding a place she could be herself with her thoughts and never need to think of anyone else again.
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