Connections

Prologue
What is a soulmate?

A soulmate is someone your connected to in a way your not connected to anyone else.

Everyone has one they end up together with, whether in friendship or romance.

Since a lot of the times, you're soulmate is not your scripted lover, a lot of the former generation fall into the former category, though not all (as in the case of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf).

Most kids dream of finding they're soulmate. But it could be hard. You have no way of knowing in what way you will be connected to your soulmate. Your sister may have a soulmate mark that matches one on her soulmate, but you may have the same disability as your soulmate.

But you will find your soulmate. Soulmates don't like to ignored.

Ember Scales and Comely Charming
Eight year old Ember was pacing her small tower room. She looked towards the door, and for what seemed like the hundredth time, charged it. Only this time, the wood splintered, breaking. She could get out. Wait, she could get out!

Ember took of running. She was free! She could see all the things she had always wanted to see! She could find her parents! She could....

Strong hands roughly grabbed her, jerking her back towards the room. She was face to face with the king, who was watching her with a fierce frown on his face. She balked under the intensity of his glare. She only saw him a few times, and Muggy, her old nurse, had been vague about her ties to him. Ember was scared of him.

He snapped his fingers, and suddenly, a sharp pain shot through her wing. He had instructed a guard to hurt her with a sword. This pain was unbearable! She was left like this until a newer, stronger door was built and put up, and before she was let go back into said room, she was sliced in the same spot.

Comely had been playing when he felt it. A sharp, burning pain spreading through his back. It was so intense, that he just fell to his knees, crying for his parents, who came running.

He hurt so bad that he was sobbing. Pleasant ran gentle fingers over his back, but didn't find anything. "Stop crying son you aren't hurt." Winsome said sternly.

Pleasant shushed her husband, and turned to Comely with a big smile on her face. "Seems like you found out how your connected to your soulmate." She said. "It appears something has happened to hurt them, and you feel it."

Comely understood, he had had many talks with his parents about all of this. But he felt bad for his soulmate. What could possibly have happened?

A few months later, Comely was playing outside, his back didn't hurt nearly as badly as it had, but it still did a little. He was playing bookball with the servants' kids, when he got tackled. Someone landed on top of him an he heard a sickening cracking noise, and he started to scream.

This wasn't pain from his soulmate. This was pain from him. He laid down on the grass, crying. One of the cooks helped him up. "Broken, both of them." She muttered, scooping him up as if he weighed nothing.

As Comely cried, he thought of two things. One, no matter how his father reacted, he was not going to play any more sports for fear of hurting himself worse next time. Two, he felt really bad for his soulmate.

Ember had been restlessly pacing her room, when the pain hit her, like a shot, and her knees buckled. She was confused, she hadn't overexerted herself or landed on her knees weirdly, so why was she hurting?

Unlike Comely, her parents had never had the soulmate talk with her. She thought she had done something wrong. But then she remembered.

She had been five at the time, and Muggy had been going on and on about how she was sure this person was her soulmate, and she just needed to figure out how they were connected.

Was it possible she felt pain because her soulmate felt pain? Did she even have a soulmate? She tried to stand up, but she face-planted, because it hurt to much to walk or even stand on them. Maybe that was the reason she felt so bad. Maybe her soulmate hurt they're knees.