Yefon: the Red Necklace
“For a long time, I never understood why people whispered “ill omen” when Yenla and I went to play with other children in the evenings. Neither did I know why some of them would recoil if Yenla tried to touch them, as if she were a plague of some sort.
Yenla being whiter than the rest of us earned her the nickname Kimbang earlier on, but that was it. It didn’t make her different to me. Her ever-dilating pupils that never stopped moving left and right didn’t scare me. It was normal. Her numerous pinkish-brown freckles like small flakes didn’t bother me either. It was normal. She was my sister and didn’t need any fixing.
Yes, she was very sickly when we were children and most times boring but that wasn’t enough to make a person a plague. What did people really fear?
Ma used to refuse to serve Yenla fish, or ce’h ye yumir, and when I asked why, she would tell me to shut up, but even then it was normal because Ma snapped at me for everything.
One day I gave Yenla some of my ce’h, and about... two weeks later, the freckles on her face had grown into the size of corn, and I was terribly afraid.MoreLess
Yenla being whiter than the rest of us earned her the nickname Kimbang earlier on, but that was it. It didn’t make her different to me. Her ever-dilating pupils that never stopped moving left and right didn’t scare me. It was normal. Her numerous pinkish-brown freckles like small flakes didn’t bother me either. It was normal. She was my sister and didn’t need any fixing.
Yes, she was very sickly when we were children and most times boring but that wasn’t enough to make a person a plague. What did people really fear?
Ma used to refuse to serve Yenla fish, or ce’h ye yumir, and when I asked why, she would tell me to shut up, but even then it was normal because Ma snapped at me for everything.
One day I gave Yenla some of my ce’h, and about... two weeks later, the freckles on her face had grown into the size of corn, and I was terribly afraid.MoreLess
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