Ecstasy of Death

Ind. Sel. Lara Raith from The Dresden Files. Written by Amyla.

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Tea and Telling Things

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“Of course.” Mae went about getting the woman a mug of strong black tea. There was something about her. Not any one thing she she could put her finger on at the moment. But it made a shiver run down her spine. 

She’d just set the cup down on a worn but still useful saucer when asked about the shop. Color rushed to her cheeks as she laughed and shook her head. 

“No, I wish. I’ve just been workin’ here a long time ‘s all.” Not that she hadn’t been offered it. But it didn’t feel like the right time yet. “I haven’t seen you in here before.” A statement rather than a question. 

Lara took the cup and saucer and stirred in a spoonful of sugar and a little cream from the stash of condiments and sweeteners on the counter. Venturing a sip, she nodded in appreciation while noting the slight flush in Mae’s cheeks in response to her question. An emotional reaction like that indicated she was much more than a simple long-term employee. The dossier she’d had put together about Mae Singer held precious little information about her past, especially her more distant past. The woman was a mystery, and Lara was intent on unraveling it.

She nodded at Mae’s observation. “I’ve not been here before. I was in the area, saw the place, and realized I had a simply undeniable craving for a cup of tea and a croissant.” She took another sip and gave Mae another dazzling smile. “Do you bake the pastries yourself? If they’re half as delicious as your tea, it truly is a shame that you don’t own the place.”  

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((Hello. I think I’m going to give some more attention to this lovely and lethal lady today.))

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women with knives 

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"Would you like a cup of tea? Some coffee?"

Lara gave the brunette behind the counter her most winning smile. “Tea would be lovely, thank you.” Letting her eyes sweep over the interior of the coffee shop, she nevertheless kept a close, peripheral watch on the woman. 

She made it her business to keep up with the business of one Harry Dresden, and word had reached her that Dresden’s latest love had a few intriguing gifts of her own. Lara had wanted to see for herself.

“What a delightfully charming establishment,” she told Mae. “Do you own it?”

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“Remember that you were warned.” (Lionheartedgxrl)

Lara’s eyes neither wavered, nor betrayed any emotion as she kept her gaze leveled on the Denarian. “I always remember.” A small smile touched her lips. “We needn’t be enemies, Deirdre. I believe we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.”

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“I don’t want to be your enemy.” Deirdre’s voice was intent. It sounded sincere, but she knew that sincerity—or the appearance of it—meant little. “But these are my men, and it looks awfully like they’ve been fed on by your family. I won’t let this stand.”

Lara went very still at that declaration. She had been unaware of this development, and she did not like being kept in the dark about the goings-on within her own home. The Knights of the Blackened Denarius would prove to be a deadly enemy if provoked, and that was a complication she could do without.

She tilted her head and regarded Deirdre for a few seconds longer than necessary, letting the silent tension build before she answered. “Neither will I. If your people have been fed on by mine, I was not made aware of it. However, I can assure you that I will learn the truth and make certain that appropriate measures will be taken to prevent it from occurring again.”

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(assumption) Lara holds herself to a very high standard, and sometimes finds it exhausting.

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“A high standard is necessary for advancement in this cutthroat world, and advancement is necessary to avoid becoming a victim. It’s quite simple, really. I do what I do as much for self-preservation as for anything. It has been a very, very long time since I was a little girl, sweet and vicious in equal measure, but ultimately dominated by others. I’ve no desire to feel powerless again.

And yes, it is... I do feel exhausted from it all. But the alternative is unthinkable. I will not surrender myself to the void.”

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(assumption) Lara has expensive taste, and absolutely no shame in displaying it.

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“Why should I feel shame for such a thing?

Come closer, and I will tell you a secret. Everything you see here, everything on my person, everything I surround myself with, each and every article of clothing, every cosmetic, every piece of decor, every piece of original art on the walls of my home-- all of these I have meticulously selected, because I am creating a living, breathing image of both desirability and power. I have cultivated my natural gifts, embellished them, refined them. These things are in no way frivolous, as some might believe, but, like most things I surround myself with, a means to an end.

That isn’t to say, of course, that I don’t enjoy them. We are creatures of sensation and hunger and lust, after all, and lust encompasses far more than flesh. There is no shame in indulging one’s proclivities, as long as that indulgence does not lead to addiction and enslavement.”

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❝ i know that laugh .  ❞ ❝ oh ,  quit playing dumb .  ❞ ❝  you’ll slip up ,  and when you do …  ❞ ❝  i have to warn them .  ❞ ❝  the last players who opened this box never made it out alive .  ❞ ❝  are you going to tell us we’re finally of age to go to wizard school ?  ❞ ❝  is there an owl in this bag ?  ❞ ❝  it was a lot more heroic than it sounds .  ❞ ❝  i am literally obsessed with unicorns .  my first word was unicorn ,  i once made my own unicorn by taping a traffic cone to a horse’s head - ❞ ❝  please ,  please ,  please .  i’ll give you my blood !  ❞ ❝  i haven’t been in this dimension for a while .  it’s okay to give children weapons , right ?  ❞ ❝  i’m here to meet ,  touch ,  and/or become a unicorn .  ❞ ❝  honestly ,  i stopped believing in unicorns when i was ,  like ,  five years old .  ❞ ❝  i bet you ten bucks nothing happens .  ❞ ❝  a unicorn can see deep inside your heart ,  child .  and you have done wrong .  ❞ ❝  your bad deeds make me cry .  ❞ ❝  i used to be one of the sweetest people i knew ,  but recently ,  i’ve been slacking in the whole goodness department .  ❞ ❝  to get his hands on this ,  he would trick or possess anyone .  ❞ ❝  ___ , do you trust me ?  ❞  /  ❝  then you’ll trust that that’s not important .  ❞ ❝  ___’s a straight-up saint ,  you judgmental hoof bag .  ❞ ❝  please tell me what i’m doing wrong .  ❞ ❝  doing good days to make yourself look better isn’t good at all .  ❞ ❝  you’re crushing ,  like ,  ten dandelions right now .  those are basically children’s dreams .  ❞ ❝  it’s not my fault you’re a bad person .  ❞ ❝  if i’m not a good person ,  who am i ?  ❞ ❝  are you suggesting violence ?  sabotage ?  ❞ ❝  look ,  it’s time we stopped trying to be so  " perfect , “  and be who we really are .  ❞ ❝  the cops !  hit the deck !  ❞ ❝  just spill it ,  half-pint .  ❞ ❝  you disgust me .  ❞ ❝  you’ve got your poison, i’ve got mine.  ❞ ❝  the deal is off .  ❞ ❝  i swear .  i’ve been framed .  ❞ ❝  no ,  you don’t understand .  i just wanna be good like you !  ❞ ❝  all our dumb horns can do is glow ,  point toward the nearest rainbow ,  and play rave music .  ❞ ❝  all this time ,  i thought i was a bad person .  but you’re even worse than i am !  ❞ ❝  what are you gonna do about it ,  huh ?  huh ?  ❞ ❝  join the dark side .  ❞ ❝  i can handle the truth .  ❞ ❝  where are these ideas comin’ from ?  ❞ ❝  my brother’s a dangerous know-it-all .  ❞ ❝  please ,  call me a friend .  ❞ ❝  you shouldn’t have done that .  ❞ ❝  get one step closer and i’ll shoot .  ❞ ❝  it’s me ,  ___ .  it’s your uncle .  ❞ ❝  look into my eyes .  ❞ ❝  i’m so sorry .  ❞ ❝  i should’ve been more like you when i was young .  ❞ ❝  it’s the biggest regret of my life .  ❞ ❝  it warned me not to read them ,  but i was desperate .  ❞ ❝  whoa ,  don’t have a heart attack .  you’re not 92 yet !  ❞ ❝  have a cup of tea .  ❞ ❝  what a fool i was ,  blinded by his flattery and games .  ❞ ❝  we were partners .  ❞ ❝  i trusted him .  ❞ ❝  he said this was the way genius happened ,  with a little help from a friend .  ❞ ❝  you lied to me !  ❞ ❝  looks like mr. brainiac finally got smart .  ❞ ❝  i’ll stop you .  ❞ ❝  but it would be fun to watch you try .  cute even .  ❞ ❝  i’d been betrayed .  ❞ ❝  to ___ ,  it’s just a game.  but to us ,  it would mean the end of our world .  ❞ ❝ oh ,  man . ❞  \  ❝  ” oh ,  man “  indeed .  ❞ ❝  i’m such an idiot .  ❞ ❝  from now on ,  no more secrets between us .  ❞ ❝  we’re not the first two idiots to be tricked by ___ ,  boy ,  but if we work together ,  we could be the last .  ❞ ❝  did someone say unicorn hair ?  ❞ ❝  is it okay ?  ❞ ❝  you’ve protected your family .  you’re a good person ,  ___ .  ❞ ❝  thanks ,  ___ ,  but today i learned that morality is relative .  ❞ ❝  MONEY !  ❞

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Assumption: Lara enjoys killing people.

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“Ah. And here is a complicated topic of discussion.

Anonymous lurker, I am a predator. It is in my blood. In my bones. Every cell of my body sings with the need to take, to consume, to drain the life from my prey. It is what I am. 

But that does not mean I cannot be civilized about it. Wanton death and destruction is… undesirable in the long run. Quite hazardous, in point of fact. We are not only creatures of instinct, but of intellect, of complicated desires and goals and, yes, even dreams. 

We are even, though it may be anathema to us, capable of love.

I am not as bloodthirsty as some may presume. I am not ruled by my passions. I command them. I bend them to my will. I use them as a tool, as a weapon, to achieve my goals. That makes the taste of life’s surrender so much sweeter in the end.”

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Send Me Your Assumptions About My Muse

and I’ll respond with “Correct”, “Nope”, or “Kinda”.

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“I’m going to assume you believe you have an excellent reason for approaching me at my home.”

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❛ it would have been better if there had been pain. pain was at least real. ❜

“Indeed,” Lara said. “Pain is relentlessly, indelibly real.” She took a step closer to Lash and gave her a calculated smile full of kindness and compassion. “But it isn’t the only thing.”

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(     *     ‘SALEM’S LOT PROMPTS   !    

——     stephen king.

❛  alone. yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the english tongue.  ❜

❛  the basis of all human fears. a closed door, slightly ajar.  ❜

❛  crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.  ❜

❛  there are no words for childhood’s dark turns and exhalations.  ❜

❛  a child who counts the cost is a child no longer.  ❜

❛  if a fear cannot be articulated, it cannot be conquered.  ❜

❛  the only thing more natural than death was sex.  ❜

❛  at three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy.  ❜

❛  if a man dethrones god in his heart, satan must ascend to his position.  ❜

❛  the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. the vampire’s time has come.  ❜

❛  it would have been better if there had been pain. pain was at least real.  ❜

❛  there is every possibility that some of us, or all of us, may live and triumph.  ❜

❛  the act of moving forward at all became heroism.  ❜

❛  in the midst of life, we are in death.  ❜

❛  horror is destroyed by boredom. love is a dream.  ❜

❛  the town cares for devil’s work no more than it cares for god’s or man’s.  ❜

❛  it knew darkness. and darkness was enough.  ❜

❛  we’d all be scared if we knew what was swept under the carpet of each other’s minds.  ❜

❛  there is no life here but the slow death of days.  ❜

❛  it is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.  ❜

❛  it seems the more you have the more aggressive you become.  ❜

❛  without faith, the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes.  ❜

❛  houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them.  ❜

❛  the people elected me. but who elected the people?  ❜

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Horror Film RP Meme

It’s Halloween! It’s time to bust out the candy and do some good o’l themed memes,send the name of the flick to start. 

Friday The 13th: Our muses decide to go on a camping trip to Camp Crystal Lake where they hear about the tale of a boy who drowned in the lake many years ago and that his mother was stricken with madness,suddenly the counselors and even some of the campers are starting to die one by one. The story can’t possibly be true…right? 

A Nightmare on Elm Street: My muse starts having nightmares about a burned face man with knives for fingers chasing them,turns out your muse is having these dreams too. However people seem to be dying in their sleep! It’s up to our muses to stop the creep,or else they will never see the light of day

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Our muses are travelling to visit the grave of your muses relative/friend/pet,to invest reports of vandalism and grave tampering,taking a detour they find out about a group of crazed murderous cannibals living next door! Our muses must survive against a human skin wearing maniac with a chainsaw and escape with their lives

Halloween: A masked knife wielding killer just escaped from prison/asylum after they brutally murdered their sibling/relative/member of the family and they seem to be stalking your muse as they babysit my muse (or something else like that). Can this psycho ever be stopped? 

Saw: Our muses find themselves chained up by their ankles in a dirty looking bathroom with a (presumably) dead body covered in blood with no memory of when,why,or how they got there. Our muses must play Jigsaw’s dangerous game in order to survive. 

Scream: Our muses started experiencing some strange phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of many questions, the main one being: Whats your favorite scary movie? Along with many scary movie trivia, ending with bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the town/city

I Know What You Did Last Summer: After accidentally running over a fisherman and dumping his body in the river. Your muse receives a frightening letter telling them that somebody knows the crime they committed. While our muses pursue who might have written it,they seem to be stalked by a killer with a hook 

Child’s Play: Your muse gets a doll from my muse that turns out to be possessed by a killers soul due to black magic,suddenly your muse’s babysitter ends up getting murdered by the doll. No one believes when your muse tells about the killer doll. So my muse must do what they can to make sure your muse isn’t it’s next victim 

Urban Legend: The university/school that our muses attend gets plagued by various murders that bear striking resemblance to old urban legends,Like one student is killed by someone hiding in their car. Our muses must find the killer before they might become the next victims….

The Cabin in The Woods: Our muses end up at a remote forest cabin in the woods,one by one innocents fall victim to the backwoods zombies,but something much bigger seems to be at play here…

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👿  𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆  𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒  𝐎𝐅  𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐀  𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 .

 A VARIETY & MIXTURE OF NETFLIX’S CAOS PROMPTS, * WARNING: TRIGGERS APPLY; SATANIC WORSHIP, DEATH, GORE & CANNIBALISM. CHANGE PRONOUNS AS NEEDED / FITTING .

❛    i feel bad for her, living in that house, all alone.   ❜

❛  i see the bad moon arising, i see trouble on the way.   ❜

❛   hello?  ❜

❛   help me, please .. ❜

❛    you poor creature, my cottage is just down the road.   ❜

❛   did we just watch different movies?   ❜

❛    the only person you’re going to scare is yourself.    ❜

❛   1692, 13 witches were hung in the woods, their angry spirits haunt the woods.   ❜

❛   how do you know so much, about witches?  ❜

❛   no, [ name ], we’ll have none of your necromancy.   ❜

❛   you can bury it in the pet cemetery.   ❜

❛   familiars are goblins taking on the role of animals.   ❜

❛   when your fully a witch, you’ll be younger longer.   ❜

❛   your only supposed to miss things after you say goodbye to them, right? ❜

❛   i am continuously missing everything.   ❜

❛   now, spirits, we will wait.   ❜

❛    we don’t want half - breeds at the academy.  ❜

❛    and who exactly are you calling a half - breed?   ❜

❛   isn’t that what you are? half witch, half mortal? ❜

❛   i’m not going to be baited and bullied by you.  ❜

❛    what are you doing?   ❜

❛    a curse. you’re cursing me. ❜

❛    stepped into some poison ivy, got to wash it off of me.   ❜

❛    if truly i am cursed today, let water wash the hex away.   ❜

❛    there’s nothing we can’t handle, as long as we’re being honest with each other.  ❜

❛    we all signed the book and proudly, i might add.    ❜

❛    the path of night or the path of light but not both.   ❜

❛    witches without covens are easy pickings.   ❜

❛   a witch hunter? is that possible? ❜

❛    could of been a movie star if chosen, like cousin montgomery.  ❜

❛    when i was your age, i signed my name in the book of the beast.   ❜

❛   us girls didn’t have any options back then.   ❜

❛   you’ll be the death of me and i’ll be death of you.   ❜

❛   i’m pretty into comics and graphic novels.   ❜

❛    isn’t that why you summoned us?   ❜

❛    they’re your enemies, you’ll have to do most of the work. ❜

❛   you’re not meddling in mortal affairs again, are you?  ❜

❛   she annoyed me, so i killed her and buried her in the yard.   ❜

❛    you could have warned me. ❜

❛    save your breath, we know you lied, you’re a terrible lair.   ❜

❛   we don’t need a reason to torment mortal boys. ❜

❛    i want both, i want freedom and power.   ❜

❛   he’ll never give you that, thought of you or any of us having both terrifies him.  ❜

❛   eventually there will come a time when i bury you and you stay buried.   ❜

❛    it’s my satan given right to kill you as many times as i please.  ❜

❛    it’s better to forget the mortal world.   ❜

❛    how clever, you’re dressed as your future. ❜

❛     are you willing to place our dark lord above all other’s in your life? ❜

❛    show me mercy, please .. please, dark lord.   ❜

❛    i am worthy of your love by kissing your beautiful feet.   ❜

❛    i admire your defiance, girl/boy.   ❜

❛    you think you can defeat me? you cannot.  ❜

❛    your flesh is mortal and in the end, all mortal flesh must burn.   ❜

❛    i’m not going to the academy to hook up with hot warlocks.   ❜

❛   i’m going to learn how to defeat the dark lord.   ❜

❛    what about classes like conjuring, rituals, demonology? ❜

❛    why do you have to be such a warlock slut all the time?   ❜

❛   i don’t need you to tell me my business.   ❜

❛    this .. this was a mistake.    ❜

❛   the thing i carved more than anything in the world was revenge.   ❜

❛    we’re going to play a game.   ❜

❛    perhaps your life could do with more purpose.   ❜

❛   must you be negative about every idea that i have?  ❜

❛   a demon, demon. a scary demon.   ❜

❛    not the devil, [ name ], a demon, in the house.   ❜

❛   what do you mean a demon? what kind of demon?  ❜

❛   now that is how you trap a demon.   ❜

❛   never open a magic box if you don’t know what’s inside it.  ❜

❛    mother of demons? you abandoned me, mother.  ❜

❛    i believe, i’m in the wrong nightmare …   ❜

❛   well, now that you’ve done it, how’s it taste? your heat?   ❜

❛   you know what they say, you can’t polish a turd.  ❜

❛    once i wake you up, you must run.   ❜

❛    praise satan!   ❜  

❛   can witches perform exorcisms?   ❜

❛   my mortal friends are talking about demons, what if they talk about witches next?  ❜

❛   give me their names and i’ll make sure they stop talking about anything.   ❜

❛   maybe i can find out the demon’s name and what it wants.   ❜

❛   having a name is always helpful.   ❜

❛   leave? why would i do that? its so nice and warm and sinful in here.    ❜

❛    you’re not even here, how rude …    ❜

❛   it felt like he was slithering down my throat.   ❜

❛   demons have an awful sense of humor. can you blame them? they live in hell.    ❜

❛   do you think that god could be punishing me?   ❜

❛   so if witches can’t perform exorcisms then what can they … we do?   ❜

❛   that worm will burrow its way back to hell where it belongs.    ❜

❛   nothing. nothing has happened. which is the problem.   ❜

❛   i mean, how am i ever going to out wit the dark lord?    ❜

❛   your poor, weak, feeble heart couldn’t handle the strain, could it?   ❜

❛   out wit the dark lord? why, [ name ], what ever do you mean?   ❜

❛   this doesn’t happen as much as it used to, us walking home together.   ❜

❛   why does it look like the texas chainsaw massacre has been nailed to our door?   ❜

❛    what happened to the people? the hill people?   ❜

❛   wait, you want this? you want to be sacrificed?    ❜

❛   if you wanted to escape, i would happily look the other way.   ❜

❛   i don’t know what happens when we die, it’s impossible to know.   ❜

❛  yes but what do you believe?   ❜

❛   you’re killing the mood, either get in or get out.   ❜

❛   oh, you had me at boys to torment.   ❜

❛   and satan knows, who we might chance upon in the woods.   ❜

❛   i’ll tell ya, i’ve seen some strange things out here.   ❜

❛   once a hunter, always a hunter.   ❜

❛   you believe that, [ name ], after what we just saw?    ❜

❛   how’s your faith in the mortal boy any different than my faith in the dark lord?    ❜

❛   why is your faith more valid than mine?    ❜

❛   does dying hurt?    ❜

❛   are you talking about a resurrection spell?    ❜

❛   necromancy is one or the darkest and dangerous of sacred magics.   ❜

❛   why are we burying her here? why not just leave her in the woods?    ❜

❛   why must you always assume the universe grant you special privileges?    ❜

❛   there is no cheating fate.    ❜

❛   you’ve crossed a line. no, no, you’ve completely erased it.   ❜

❛   there’s no reason to think that the spell will fail.   ❜

❛   you’re playing with life and death and you don’t even know the basics.   ❜

❛   you lied to me. you did the one thing that i told you not to do.    ❜

❛   the witch you killed and brought back to life is getting sicker and sicker.

❛  you’ve opened pandora’s box.    ❜

❛   we are standing in a grave, all of us and you want to dig it deeper.    ❜

❛  you don’t know what i’m capable of.   ❜

❛   everything has a price.   ❜

❛   i can see things, things i shouldn’t be able too.    ❜

❛   but what does it mean to be witch?   ❜

❛   why are you virgins so aggressive?    ❜

❛   i smell virgins the way rabid dogs smell blood.   ❜