Maurice 2
The lady, Maurice, was tagged a daughter of a whore since her twelve years
of age, she had grown to this name of stigma and had already thought of it as
cliche,every woman without a husband and which bore a child was tagged
loose in her community, and if such woman was no more, the tag goes to the
female child in their anticipation to take on the steps of her biology although
she had faint memory of her parents, especially of her father, she
remembers she once asked her mother of her father and was told her father
wanted nothing to do with a village girl as he was a noble of another
commune, he considered it his youthful mistake atleast that she knew
growing up in her societyHowever while her mother was a villager and a very beautiful brown
woman with a striking brown eyes as if it could lit up at any moment, many
suitors had lined up for her hands and on knowing she had a child would
vanish in an instance, it indeed took on her mother no matter how her
mother branded the men as incompetent the little Maurice could still feel her
mother's sadness and sometimes blames her own existence.
Maurice's mother Annie had no job, she wasn't literate to be a governess nor
had resource enough to start up some kind of trade even she knew trading
was useless for her type in her village,an obvious castigation",the villager
refused her some sort of works and when she finally gets it she receives little
to nothing and she eventually became what they called her a "tramp".
It came a day while Maurice sat by herself as usual, she waited patiently for
her mother by the chimney warming herself by the moldy logs of wood, she
enjoyed the crackling sounds but while she waited on her mother, she never
returned, the morning came but she didn't return either and it went on from
days to a week and Annika had no patience to keep waiting for her for it was
the longest she had stayed, at ten years of age she knew it was odd and
became uneasy wanting to search for her mother.
It was winter and the thick of the covers swallowed her small booths, she
made her way to the village administrator's office but as she walked she
noticed the high murmurs and whispers grow as she walked her way up,
kids around her age pointed their hands and mothers of this children never
cautioned them but scorned at her, she was used to their spiteful gaze but it
seems that it was in great disgust today was it because she never stepped out
for a week.
Finally reaching her destination, lucky enough she recognized a young man
which whom she had seen a few times with her mother and her small feet
carried her to him.
I am looking for my mother Master, she has not returned home for days, her
face brimmed with tears.
The young master with a lady at hand lowered a fit over as he sneered at
her," your mother was a spoil of business and had brought great problems to my
business since this few days I have had no rest, my investment gone, she
wasted my work by getting caught, that damned mother of yours owes me a
tone and she steals from me by dying, he stood up and clicked his tongue
how would you her daughter make up for it.
Maurice was confused about what he said, was her mother a thief and got
caught stealing and what did he mean by "dying ".
I don't understand Mister, Maurice sniffled, the lady by his side let out a
small chuckle,
Oh little thing, poor child, what the young master Ski is saying is, your
mother wassss.. a spoil of business and she's dead because she got caught in
the balls of the king and was taken to death by the queen and now, the
queen's fangs are everywhere in his business, she requests a ton from the
master in return, if I where you darling I will pick my tiny brown feet
running for my life cause the queen would wipe out the generation of your
whoring mother that means, she's coming for you.
Her feet knew one thing, to run and run as fast as she could back home but
at getting home a great crowd and fogginess of the street was chaos, she
didn't know what was happening, her home was on fire as the flames danced
with winds and crowds cheered to their success, she was all alone no safe
heaven to cry, all she knew was the home and mother and the villagers but
she has lost everything in a day because she left home, her mom tells her
never to leave home but today, just today she left and the house was burnt
and she couldn't find her mother, her mother would definitely be very angry
at her, she snaked her small self from the crowd running in with intentions
to safe some of her mother's dresses atleast but 9n her steps she got dragged
away by the same master Ski.
Are you mad you have the same death wish as your mother, come with me
he dragged her bit she resisted,
If you don't come, I won't show you where your mother is, so now tap your
feet faster
The carriage rode for few minutes to a little mansion uncovering above the
valley, they arrived at their destination and she was dragged out to a room.