Securing One's Own Legacy, a story of the Aunt Family/Zenobia for the Bonus Round

To kelkyag's prompt for here, my dailyprompt prompt "doomed from the start."

Zenobia is the post-American-Civil-War Aunt in the Aunt Family; her tag is here and the family landing page is here.

The Aunt is a hereditary title with some magical power in this family, and is always a woman who has nieces.

The Icon (in DW) is of another Aunt, Ruan. I don't have one for Zenobia yet.

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Her older relatives did not like Zenobia.

Her relatives did not like Zenobia, with very few exceptions. She was, to quote one particularly annoyed relative - her grandmother, Festia - a most recalcitrant and difficult child.
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Bonus Round: Daily Prompt

dailyprompt:

Today's prompt is "getting your feet wet".

Now accepting up to three prompts for this theme. Closed!

Bonus points if they dovetail with a square of my OrigFic bingo card

Take the first Step, or don't.
Even your Knees are wet
Getting everything wet

BIN-go!

I have posted a Bingo. And my card is still open!

The donation ticker is just $5 from a second row! (or $25 from two more rows... ;-)

Bingo! Column One

This is a fill for my January 2nd card:

B1: A Favorite Place
Prompt: A Favorite Place
Verse: Stranded Universe
Summer knows her sister Autumn has a favorite place.

B2: Team D
Prompt: A Cunning Plan
Verse: Dragons Next Door
Whose brilliant idea was it to kidnap her?

B3: Time of Testing
Prompt: Test/Exam
Verse: n/a
"This is how we've tested since the dawn of time."

B4: Unwelcome Guests
Prompt: Unwelcome Guest
Verse: Addergoole/Baram's House Elves
In the middle of an apoc, most guests are unwelcome

B5: Victimization
Prompt: Victim
Verse: Dragons Next Door
Follows after Cunning Plan, above.

Holy Places: Bingo Card Fill

Story: In the Holy
Prompt: Holy Place
Setting: Misc/Space (here)
524 Words:

From the notebook of Serja, called The Exile Church.

I was sent away for saying things that were not supposed to be true.

Those things I said, not because I wished to be sent away (I did not! I had a good life, as such things go, and good friends, as much as they could be, and a pleasant place to reside), not because I wished to make trouble (I also did not! People who make trouble were sent away, or worse), but because the truths sang from my mouth like the resonation of the universe, and it hurt to hear them called lies...