Prompt: Your character sees/interacts with something from their childhood and it stirs up old feelings. (Up to 300 Words)

My Word Count: 388

Pairing(s): None.

Character(s): Maya Fey

Like most forays into cleaning somewhere that hasn't been touched for a long time, Maya spends more of her time looking through old photo albums and inspecting old toys than she does actually cleaning when she decides to venture into the attic of Fey Manor.

Unfortunately, her mother's and sister's untimely deaths a few years ago have left her without a lot of knowledge about her family's past, so she feels like she's stumbled into a goldmine the further she digs through the dusty boxes piled in the attic.

She gathers up a few of the best things she finds: an old photo album with faded black and white photos inside, a notebook that appears to have been the diary of one of the past Kurain Masters, and a scrapbook that seems to be a family tree, completed up to a few years before she was born.

On her way back to the attic's ladder, she bangs her foot on an old dresser as she passes. She hisses in pain and drops her pile of books on top of it. Out of curiosity, she opens the first drawer, and inside she finds an old shoe box. She lifts the lid and finds envelopes, not as old or yellowed as the other things. These are a little more recent.

She pulls one out and finds it's addressed to her sister, from none other than an Elise Deauxnim; her mother's pseudonym. Maya pulls the letter out of the envelope with shaking hands and unfolds it. The date written at the top indicates it was sent in 2014, back when she would have been fifteen years old, before her mother had died.

Maya skims the contents of the letter, up until she sees her own name written in her mother's cursive handwriting.

'Tell Maya I love her.'

Tears immediately spring to her eyes. She knows her sister must have had a good reason for keeping these letters from her, but it still hurts knowing they've been here all this time, sitting forgotten in an attic.

She places the letter back in the envelope and puts the lid back on the shoe box before gingerly lifting it out of the drawer. She leaves her other items where they are and takes the letters downstairs with her. She has some reading to do.