꒰ ✿ a the handmaide's tale book ✿ ꒱

"I HAVE A SISTER.", he told the Commander. Upon hearing the familiar voice, she stopped in the middle of the hallway. "No, I had a sister. Her name was Sofia." Her eyes filled with tears. She couldn't remember the last time someone said that name - HER name - with so much love and affection. She only remembered one person. Her two older brothers. And only one of them was left now. Wherever that was.

Sofia heard someone lean forwards in an armchair made out of leather. Picking up a glass with ice in it. "I'm sorry to hear that, Nick. Tell me something about her." Now she was for certain. The voice to the person with the Commander belonged to her brother. She had finally found him. She wasn't alone anymore.

Without caring who could see her, she stepped closer to the door of the study. Resting her right ear against it. "Sofia just turned 16 the last time I saw her. She was such a sweet girl. Naive as well, but that was probably due to our father treating her like his little princess." He let out a small laughter. "She loved to sing. Sofia was part of our churches choir. People would often tell her that she sounded like an Angel, to which she took great offense. She would often tell the people.."

"God would have never given me the voice of his most precious creations.", she finished the sentence in her head. Closing her eyes, Sofia allowed a few tears to roll down her cheeks before getting away from the door. Whipping her eyes, she joined the Commanders Handmaid in her room.

"Are you alright?", the blonde woman asked her. She nodded. "More than alright. I think.. I think I just found my dead brother."

( same as New Americana for now )

a/n: i just finished reading both the handmaids tale and the testaments. so the colors each group's wearing will be based on the books and not the show. commanders = black, wives = blue, handmaids = red, marthas = green, echo wives = blue-green stripes, aunts = brown, daughters = pink (spring/summer)/plum (fall/winter)/white (special days).