Was MORALITY not an artifice of EVIL?Was it not WORSE than the DIABOLICAL? Since when did GOODNESSmean anything except RESTRICTIONS? An imperative CLAUSE binding wizards and witches to a set of LAWS. Exclamation marks SLUNGacross a tender neck, CENSORING eventhe faintest of SIGHS. There, in theGAPING soul, in the beating HEART, fermented a DESIRE too strong, too DANGEROUSto silence. There, in the splendid MIND,which was too GENIUS in its ideas, hibernatedthe NEED for emancipation. She hadalways believed there to be a BEAUTYin DARKNESS, an intoxicating THRILL to know, to look back at the original SIN & proudly exclaim – ‘ I CHOSE to know ’. But was not that REBELLIOUS curiosity that brought forth the DOWNFALL of man, was it not her WILL for self-valuation the reason for HIS damnation.
She had seena TREMENDOUS power in him, an echoof a PAST outside the boundaries ofhis PRESENT. She had WITNESSED the rare glimpses ofsomething SLITHERING beneath thoselayers of INDIFFERENCE. She hadwatched the OPHIDIAN prowl ofsomething BLACK, something murderousin the GLACIATED gleam in thosemelancholic eyes. And she wanted to SHOWhim the nakedness of their STATE aswitches and wizards, those self-proclaimed PREACHERSof virtue, these DISCIPLES of a LIE. She wanted to help him PEEL his weakness off, SHED the doctrines of CONTROL the wizarding world had forcedupon them, and accept his fate as a DESCENDANTof the serpent. But he had SHUNNED her; he had only heard the DEAFENING white CRY for a nonexistent JUSTICE.He had BETRAYED her, and in doing sohe had BETRAYED himself. Forevercondemned to live in the SHADOWS ofa crime, to watch the SLICKNESS ofblood turn BLACK.
And herethey were NOW, perdition all aroundthem. No matter where they TURNED,they would always be met with the SAMEsense of DOOM. They were a WHOLE split into TWO halves, destined to FEELthe absence of the other like an AMPUTATEDlimb. And how IRONIC it all was – tostand now FACING her HELL the same way she had STOOD in Gethsemane delivering the FINAL kiss. How IRONIC it all was to be addressed as a TRAITOR when she had – voluntarily or not – salvaged him from hisown DEMONS by devouring them. Shehad willingly turned into his ONE& ONLY demon. A resurrection forHIM & a metamorphosis for HER.
Their eternity was now only HISTORY, theirchests a BATTLEGROUND where emotions lay DEAD. His wand waspressed to her abdomen, her eyes pleading him to END what she had BEGUN.❛ Enough. ❜Her voice LACKEDthe mocking tone which DEFINED her speech; she stood in the middle ofher snakeskin, EXPOSED & BARE, yet always cradling her pride.She would not BOW her head in shame for all the heinous acts she’s committed.She was an inverse REFLECTION of ORDER, and she would NOThide behind FALSE remorse. ❛ Do it. ❜ Grant her this lastchance to feel DIVINE, let her rememberhow to touch you before it was too late.
And this time, maybe, it wouldn’t feel like betrayal when lips meet his.This time it might taste like forgiveness.