"Little Star," the king said, his red eyes shining down as he greedily took in my whole body and the repressors upon it, "it will be my pleasure to corrupt your soul."
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Darkness laid the Kingdom to waste since the r...
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Scar
I faintly trace the scar that is on my shoulder.
The two points that show.
Saint laid curled in a ball in front of the fire, her head resting in my lap, as my other hand played with her long golden hair.
I was fascinated with the color.
I honestly couldn't remember the exact color my hair had been before the Moon had painted it.
Had it been blond also?
Maybe a light brown.
There were no mirrors for me to look into.
No reflective surfaces for me to know what my features were like at that time.
I had been a little girl then, and had no knowledge of the Moon and her powers before that. I had not been taught within her teachings and ways, nor had I undergone the intense training and rigorous studying of the Temple.
I had been ignorant.
I had been blissfully, peacefully and wholly unaware.
I wish that could still be the case.
"Why do you think she chose you?"
I hear the faint whisper of Saint. I look down to see her blank eyes staring into the fire, taking in the flames.
I wonder if the brightness did not burn her sight.
But she never looked away.
"I don't know," I admit.
"She knew you could do it," Saint said, a faint trace of fierceness in her voice, "she knew."
I stare at her and think over the words.
"Maybe. I have every chance of failing though."
"But you won't."
I sigh at the added pressure that fixed itself to me. But the Temple had trained me for this. Put me through various stressors because they knew that one day, I would be put under the ultimate test.
We had all been ignorant though, about the true nature of what this test would entail.
"I was raised in a home that was four stories high."
I don't feel surprised by Saint's words. Everything about her mannerisms, her actions, words, and dialect- even her two-worded name- showed that she came from high breeding.
"And I thought that so long as the darkness didn't touch me I was okay. I didn't want to see the infection in people because I didn't want to feel the guilt over what I had that they didn't."
"Some are just better off than others," I whisper silently.
"Maybe," Saint says.
We sit in silence for several more minutes before she speaks again, "What about you?"
