fic n° 126

She found that her reaction to the horn changed: she went through quite a confusing sequence of emotions, looking at the little sharp point that casually protruded from Eiko’s head. At first, it had almost repulsed her to see something so abnormal, and to note that nobody else seemed to have such a reaction: they all treated the little girl as if she was the same as anybody else. Then, when Garnet came to understand her own past, she wondered whether it might have been a strange attraction to something that should have been hers all along, or an envy of some kind; and she became determined to look at it without flinching away.