The Scarlet Flame of Love (Grimm x Pure Vessel)

~The White Palace~

                     The pale king spread his luminescent wings, and began to fly past the spinning blades, that I only noticed now. "observe and follow" He gracefully landed, not even stopping to look back. I could not look away, not that i wished to. I jumped, and my cloak too sprouted small luminescent wings, not as large as the kings, but still workable. leaping from platform to platform I flew, mimicking his every movement and tilt to his wings.  He leaned at the edge of a platform, as if to think a way to pass. I studied his faceless expression, and too leaned in and watched the large blades spin, back and forth. We stayed there for a while, staring, staring and thinking. He turned to me and nodded, my small form looking up in surprise. The first thing I had felt since my conception was a bond with this figure, who i wished to call father. this moment only lasted a second, but it was enough for me, I wished so desperately to not let him down. I tried to not think, not feel, not hope, but simply trying was the problem. If I was hollow, if I was empty, void of all that makes me original, then and only then would my attempts be useful. The fact that I had to try ment I was not truly hollow. This knowledge weighed on me like water in my lungs. The king had no idea, and i did not want to be cast into that dark pit, the way i had been before I was born. I still remember the feeling of falling, into that dark void, the egg filling with the viscous black blood. It filled my every pour, taking control and I felt my body be absorbed by the wriggling black mass. yet i did not resent my father, this was all for the greater good, as he once said "no good can come without sacrifice." My mind flooded with these memories, ones of pain and tribute. "for the greater good" He always reminded himself that. It had been years, and i had grown. I was now nearly three times the height of my father. "you are ready. I will place the seals." I was not informed of what seals were to be placed over me, just that there would be three.