A kaleidoscopic cascade of broken glass, oil, tiny white flakes, and a tumbling plastic snowman sailed through the air. Arching toward the floor where they refracted in a manner consistent with their material. The ever smiling snowman came to rest under the table in a bed of glass shards.

“You are out of line young lady!”

Yari’s mother knew it was the wrong thing to say the moment the words left her lips. This is how it always started. Yari would throw a tantrum. She would scold her daughter and the fight would escalate from there. She braced herself for the inevitable screaming, but it never came.

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In a moment that was somehow worse than the start of so many fights. She watched Yari slump to the floor with her face in her hands and start sobbing.

Author's Note: I'm not really sure how I want to upload this. I expect it to be too short for chapters and too long to upload full sections. Time and mental energy are in short supply right now. So this isn't going to be done quickly. Also, the more upload, the more views. So there needs to be a balance between uploads of a reasonable length and whoring myself out to the numbers.

Rest assured, the following uploads won't be this damn short. It's really more of a prologue scene. It just didn't quite fit with the first section.