Drabble a Day - Snowflake

Snowflakes. From a distance and in a large clump, they look completely and utterly ordinary; beautiful, but ordinary. They were undistinguishable from the other flakes about them. Rhiannon idly wondered if Anann saw her firstborn with Rhiannon within that context; just children with the occasional hiccup of difference.

The Morrigan wasn't a cruel mother, but neither was she doting. It fell onto the aspects of Rhiannon to ensure that the girls and their young brother grew up knowing a mother's affection. She had sworn to herself over their cradles that they wouldn't have to turn up like her and Becky, with more than lingering issues concerning their mothers.

As the girls grew, Rhiannon coaxed interests, soothed fears, handled tempers, and guided knowledge. She was grateful for the abilities to be in four places at once, not to mention have nine seperate trains of thoughts because being Anann's wife and the mother to her children was exhausting. Not to mention the fights when Anann announced her need for loyal soldiers, and eyed Rhiannon expectantly, drained the new goddess. The secondborn generation and later didn't fare so well as the first.

Still. Time passed and the girls emerged from the swirl of snow to become their own unqiue wonder. Kennedy and Calleigh were two dark mirrors of the other, stalking through the forests of Rhiannon's personal lands as if they were practicing for later hunts in life. Siofra was the belle of the ball, a charmer of the highest order that broke hearts without stopping to look back at the damage she caused. She weaved fairy lights and sang sweetly to trick the unwary into her grasp. Ciara was a throwback to Lugh's keen mind and Rhiannon's grace; she was a master of everything put before her, always hungry to discover more (Rhiannon believed the girl had inheirted her wanderlust).

Fiona was the calm in the storm of her siblings. The guardiand and protector, she was nothing like the wild passions of her mothers and perhaps because of that... she was their favorite as well.