>>2347317Poor Silvia, I didn’t mean to distract her. It was just a professional smile; I got lost in thought for a second and forgot. When I was younger I learned to be careful when smiling or looking at people; else they could behave… wrong.
Grandma Fiora told me long ago that I had a gift; the ‘charm’, she called it. She told me I was very beautiful, but that I shouldn’t be vain or use my beauty to manipulate people, or my ‘charm’ could turn against me and leave me alone in a world where everyone would hate me.
What a wise woman…
Back when I started having this… whatever it was – at first a few friends told me it was my boobs –, this ‘charm’; life got easy. I could get free stuff at the market, I could have boys do my chores, and everyone wanted to be my friend. It wasn’t attraction because it also worked on girls; it was the power like my granny told me.
She warned me and I played dumb. Giving it up was hard; I didn’t learn my lesson until the ten or so people that I had repeatedly asked for favors from chased me out of town; yelling as loud as they could how they loved me undyingly… even my girlfriends!
When they eventually caught me… well, they didn’t hurt me but they did get hansdy and they ruined what I was wearing. I think I can still marry in white.
Grandma calmed our neighbors down after accusations of dark magic came up but told me that I had to move and I agreed. I apologized for making her worry so much, in tears. She sent me a way with some family heirlooms, a lot of her savings and went to stay with one of her friends, a nice old lady by the name of Camilla that I gladly assist however I can in gratefulness on how she lets me stay with her.
