The prodigal hath returned.

Every time, in the past, that she has left that place behind, tears blinded her vision, and she sat there, deciding never to return. Every one of those times she has gone back to the very same place, giving in to reality, accepting divine justice bestowed upon us mortals. What reasons they might be, that drive her thresholds to the extremes, is something we will delve in a little later; but the place that takes her in, every time she runs away from reality, is a haven of its own kind. 

It has always been welcoming;  Every time the prodigal has returned, with eyes hung low with shame and a heart searching within the lost dungeons for itself. She walked back every trip with the feeling of a newly wed, returning home to her parents, to the smell of the house she has grown up to love. Every action, sight and sound here reminds her of parallels from the new world that surrounds her now, some happy moments there, some lost in search for the soul. Every time she longs to prolong the stay to every second; who knows when she might ever be able to be back in the bosom of warmth, who knows what cold winters await her where she has to be?!

Every trickle has a story of a lost temper driving it; every spec has a caustic remark triggering it. And they all loom back as nightmares in the ride that she has out of that place. When she takes stock of what she has and what she wants to have, she realizes that it was never right from the beginning. It dawns on her that she never fit in it from day numero uno, she was always an outsider to this world and shall die one.  Every effort that she has made to change things from what they are meant to be, has been one futile step forward towards this harsh realization; a starch fact that it was not meant to be any different at all.

Grown up and as a confirmed adult, she will now ride back to duty, with her childish dreams intact, her juvenile interests untouched, the she unchanged. The little that she has strayed in the recent past will be rewritten, mistakes undone, things will be forced back to status quo. All will be reset to how it had been on day zero, a few hours into this newfound land, she had beaming with the confidence of the solitary reaper, unaware, untouched!!