@violenthearted / continued from here.
❛ but they didn’t . . . not stay , exactly . ❜ she says it like they ever gave her any choice in the matter , but she was six , just a kid whose memory they wiped of any trace of their existence , anything she might have remembered about the circle . ❛ and they did it to protect me . they were PROTECTING me . ❜ but there are tears welling in tessa’s eyes , and she lets out a scream of frustration , rubbing desperately at her face so as to stop them from falling . protecting is a stretch , because what were they protecting you from ? their evil coven . but they , themselves , are evil too . still , even now , channeling the souls of innocents for their power . tessa’s parents chose to protect their daughter instead of giving her over to be sacrificed , but that does not make them good . ❛ of course it changes things . i know where i come from now , and it’s ——— it’s horrible , lizzie , it’s horrible , they’re MURDERERS . ❜ and your power , tessa , where does it come from ? ❛ and -——— yeah , i’m not some mortal kid in a school full of supernatural people , so that part makes sense now , but my powers ? they come from evil , lizzie , I’M EVIL . ❜
