04.08 "Stop making me think. I'm believing over here." - Harry Dresden, Wizard

There were times after Sarah was returned to her own time and place, unable to get back to the Hogwarts she knew, that the outside world felt oppressive to her. It seemed as if its very existence questioned her experiences, held its reality up to the fantasy her experiences were generally thought to be, and made a judgment upon it. Logic and fact made no room for magic and imagination and thinking of only the latter was termed foolish for an adult. To her, it felt as though the world was requesting her to think about these fanciful things until she had simply thought them right out of the real qualities they possessed.

( She refused to do so. )

Sarah Williams | Labyrinth | 531 words
muse_playground prompt #04.08
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79. "Seems like it was yesterday when I saw your face
You told me how proud you were, but I walked away
If only I knew what I know today" ~ Christina Aguilera

On Mother's Day this year, I didn't even think of my own mother once. Instead, I thought about my best friend, Lily, a lot. Seems odd, except if you know the history behind it and that history is that she was more a mother to me in almost nine months than my own mother was in nineteen years.

I still remember the first time we met – even then she taught me. Oh, it wasn't just about her encouragement in getting a charm right that I hadn't been able to master before that, it was that she taught me the first of many lessons about believing in myself. You think a stranger wouldn't be able to accomplish that in one afternoon by a lake, but she did by simply telling me that I was right for the house I had been sorted into and, even more, that I had potential. That made me realize perhaps maybe I was right for Hogwarts itself.

( She was so insightful, though you would likely never hear her saying anything but the opposite. )


Sarah Williams | Labyrinth | 663 words
muse_playground prompt #79
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