Alone-

[Frogger16 81]

If one would listen closely, they would hear gut wrenching sobs deep in the tunnels of the homes in Hefrumm. A curled form of a small halfling shook and trembled, pained and heartbroken huffs leaking out from the form. Suddenly the figure grips their hair showing her face- Delphi Wanderfoot. Her eyes puffy and looking unnerved, unsure really. Delphi sat up still gripping her hair in a death-type grip, she looked at herself in the mirror across from her. The image didn't look like her, she whispered out with wide eyes at the image "Momma?"

"W'y can't ye be bet'er."

"Ye wonder w'y ye can't be 'appy? W'y evereh place ye live dies before ye? W'y everehon' leaves? W'y ye can neva make a famileh o' ye own?"

Delphi sat there with an agape mouth, tears running down her face like an abandoned faucet. She didn't-couldn't- say anything, she wished to know why herself.

"Yer are weak- Ye walk aroun' loike a nitwit an' expec' t'em no' ter take advan'age o' ye- Ye fekin disgrace o' a 'alflin'"

"Now look a' ye, all alone wit' ou' anehon' o' yer improper 'friends'. 'Ow pathetic- Lil Delphi s'ould've lis'ened ter me w'en s'e had a c'ance."

"An' now ye see, nobodeh liokes a clumseh, s'upid oaf!-"

The voice of the late Wanderfoot was cut off with a crash, glass shattering under the mirror and around the well taken care of halfling feet. A few huffs are heard as Delphi looks down at her hand, now bloody, dripping onto the broken shards. The same hand pushes forward to grab one of the shards, cutting even deeper into the hand but gone unnoticed by the mentally gone halfling, with reckless abandon the self made knife slices off one of the long locks of red that surround her. Delphi sobs as she chops off the hair she had been growing since she was a child, the one thing she had that was in honor of her Mother, right off. No care on the jagged edges she left, only wanting to remove another stain she had on her with all she could. Stain's never fully leave, they may not be there that you can see but you know its there... One more slice and down goes the red tree, only leaving a jagged stump. Delphi glanced into the shard, now colored red, to see the reflection of herself. Not her mother looking back at her. She sighed falling back onto the floor and curled up once more, just so she didn't feel so-

Alone.