Mira Eden has done this many times before. Spoken the same words, answered the same questions, seen the same sea of faces watching her with the same expressions. Pity, curiosity, morbid fascination... after having spoken so many times in so many places she has come to realize how similar people are, no matter where she goes.
Children of Eden, her publicist has called it. The Life and Trials of the Edenite Cult.
Cult is such a powerful and terrible word. What she remembers as a quiet and peaceful childhood, others see as a horrifying experience - a world without technology, without electricity, all at the whim of a man who thought himself the voice of God himself? How backwards, how cruel. Of course they were raided, and of course it was because of weapons. After all, how could such a community not bear ill will against the world?
And of course, how could such a man not turn his gaze inwards, and commit atrocities against the ones he's made his flock?
(She does not recall such things, if they did happen, but she has had therapists tell her such repression of memory happens.)
Mostly, she speaks at universities, where students come to gawk and take notes. More rarely she gets requests to speak on some news channel, or even virtual events - she never knows what'll come next. There are people for that, people who guide her and decide for her and make sure that she isn't taken advantage of. In a way, her life hasn't changed much from what it was before. Only now instead of a smile from the Father, she receives polite applause and the money she needs to live in the world.
And all it takes is to betray the people who raised her, again and again.
You might have seen Mira's presentation as part of a school assignment, on some public television show, or just saw an article somewhere. Maybe it meant something to you, or maybe not. You might have even asked a question in that period when she's done and the floor is made open to them. Whatever the case, if your character saw it and had a reaction to it, here's the place to post it.
Children of Eden, her publicist has called it. The Life and Trials of the Edenite Cult.
Cult is such a powerful and terrible word. What she remembers as a quiet and peaceful childhood, others see as a horrifying experience - a world without technology, without electricity, all at the whim of a man who thought himself the voice of God himself? How backwards, how cruel. Of course they were raided, and of course it was because of weapons. After all, how could such a community not bear ill will against the world?
And of course, how could such a man not turn his gaze inwards, and commit atrocities against the ones he's made his flock?
(She does not recall such things, if they did happen, but she has had therapists tell her such repression of memory happens.)
Mostly, she speaks at universities, where students come to gawk and take notes. More rarely she gets requests to speak on some news channel, or even virtual events - she never knows what'll come next. There are people for that, people who guide her and decide for her and make sure that she isn't taken advantage of. In a way, her life hasn't changed much from what it was before. Only now instead of a smile from the Father, she receives polite applause and the money she needs to live in the world.
And all it takes is to betray the people who raised her, again and again.
You might have seen Mira's presentation as part of a school assignment, on some public television show, or just saw an article somewhere. Maybe it meant something to you, or maybe not. You might have even asked a question in that period when she's done and the floor is made open to them. Whatever the case, if your character saw it and had a reaction to it, here's the place to post it.
