Hollow Hills

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Imagine even just for a second that you got to be the hero.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Imagine brown girl handmaiden lowborn poor someone who has always been the supporting role to everyone else - gets to be the hero. Because she has to be. Because someone has to stand up for what's right. Because if you see wrong being done and you do nothing to stop it - does that make you a part of it? Does that make you at fault for it?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aliyah Baracnik second child of her family tries to keep her head down in the castle she works in. She serves the royal family she cleans their linens she washes their floors she sends money home to her parents so that they can eat. She doesn't want to be the hero. She wants a quiet life. She doesn't know what she will have to do to earn it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her father has what he refers to as 'The Sight' which he keeps a secret. Their family doesn't need an extra target on their back. Aliyah has spent her life hearing that one day she too will have the sight. She doesn't want it. She wants her quiet life. She wants peace. She wants love.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Imagine that she loses things she didn't know she even wanted. Imagine that the only choice left in the world is to become the hero. Imagine this girl dark-skinned big hair dirty face lesser-than makes herself the hero. Because someone has to be.</span></p>