Sombra sat in his private study, it was a quiet and well organized room, but there were a few secrets hidden in there. He was writing in a journal, he had one for each year of his reign so there were quite a few in total and some passages focused entirely on his daughter. He wrote a new entry in the journal "Shard is growing into such a fine young mare and it pains me to keep the secret of her mother from her, but she can't know or else she'll hate me". He shut the journal and placed it with the others behind a portrait of him and Shard.
He stepped away from the desk and left his study, taking great care to lock it before he left. Once again he had free time and he wasn't particularly in the mood to torture and subjugate anyone right now so he went to find his daughter. It never really required much searching to find her for she was usually cooped up in her room or playing with the kids of Sombra's advisers and since his advisers weren't here she was probably in her room, so he headed for the palaces east wing.
Shard was in her room, there was a piece of paper in front of her. She had begun to draw on it, levitating crayons across the paper and basically just plain drawing, but with magic. She was enjoying her little bit of time alone when she head a light knocking at the door. Shard knew who it was instantly because only her father ever knocked and it was something she'd grown used to. "Come in" she yelled, even though she was pretty near the door and she could have just said it, but she enjoyed yelling.
Her father entered the room and he smiled at his daughter "Hello, my little princess" he said and stepped over to her. Shard smiled at her father, stood up and hugged his leg, he wrapped his other leg around her in return. "What are you drawing sweety?" he asked, eyeing the paper, Shard smiled and levitated the paper over "Its you" she said and passed it to him. Sombra saw it was a crude drawing of him, it was what his daughter usually drew, but this one was different, he was small in the picture and he had and angry scowl on his face.
"What are you drawing?" he said again, but this time there was more confusion in his voice. "Its not finished yet daddy" she said and looked down, embarrassed. One of Sombra's advisers appeared in the door way "Your Majesty, we need you to sigh some documents for us if you would" he said. Sombra sighed "Sweety, can you show me the drawing when its finished, please?" Sombra said to his daughter and she nodded with a grin "Thanks sweety, I love you". "I love you too, daddy" she said, Sombra leaned down and kissed his daughter on the head before exciting with his adviser.
Later...
Sombra sat on his throne, he was signing something and was extremely bored, when his daughter ran in the throne room with a piece of paper in her mouth "Daddy, I finished the drawing" she said, somehow managed in not mess up any words through the paper in her mouth. Sombra looked to his daughter and picked her up when she managed to reach him "Let me see" she said politely and toke the paper from his daughter. When he saw the drawing he couldn't take his eyes away, it was of him standing on his balcony and watching as his citizen toiled below. "Sweety, what made you draw this?" he asked his daughter and she suddenly looked sullen "Jade Candle told me about you when you were at work, I didn't believe him, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. is it true?" she asked, sounding so innocent and Sombra felt so ashamed of himself "No sweety, it isn't true" he said and held his daughter close, not being able to stand what he had become.