The Ballad of Deceit (YANDERE entity x reader)

The Search for a Thousand Sorrows

The carriage ride was silent for the most part. Leo stared out the window listlessly, his star-coated eyes absorbed his surroundings with twinkling awareness.

Though he looked utterly bored, I couldn't help but stare. He was so unnaturally beautiful, it was practically blinding. The sharp edges to his face looked as if they would cut me if I dare touched them. His moonlit skin shined even in the moonless night. It was clear to me that his eyes had absorbed all the color of the sky around his castle.

It made me wonder how I even got here on this strange plane. It didn't even feel as if it was a part of the world-not at all. But, most of all, I just couldn't understand how someone so striking could be so terrible. Maybe it was my human nature to assume all attractive things were harmless-but even then, he shouldn't be this cruel.

"Careful there, little queen," he didn't even glance my way as he spoke, "Stare too long and you might burn a hole through me." I gulped and blushed in embarrassment. Cleared my throat, "Why do you call me that?" I asked. "What? Little Queen?"

I nodded and he chuckled slightly. "Well, you're a little human," he turned away from the window to face me now, "And you're my queen, aren't you?"

I wanted to shake my head vigorously, disagree with all of my might. But, the entire Southern Kingdom already knew about our fake betrothal and Rosemary Cove isn't far off of the border. Charleon must've already heard. Charleon must think I left him-forgot about him. But, how could I forget about Charleon when every life I lived in my one-hundred years of sleep centered around him?

I...need him...I...I can't breathe. Suddenly, I can't breathe. I can't breathe at all. I can't speak or move or think. I gripped the dark purple cushioned seat with my right hand and clutched my chest with the left.

My fingers dug into my dress's dark fabric and my eyes welled with what could only be described as blur. "Y/n..?" I could hear Leo's hesitant voice somewhere around me. But, my fuzzy vision couldn't make out much except for the floor of the carriage.

"Little queen, what's wrong?" He sounded worried but not wholly for me. He had no reason to anyway. At the most, his concern was because I was his key to end his life of torment. Of course he can't let me die.

But, I don't know what's happening to me. I'm sure I'm not dying, I shouldn't be, but my chest is tight and I'm heaving and the walls are closing in and Charli...and my brother....and my parents and my friends....all I can see is them. They're waiting for me but I left.

I left so soon, so abrupt. And then I watched them die over and over. But it was all in my mind and I'm insane and I'm insane and I'm cursed and awful and I can't breathe and-

"Y/n!" Two strong hands gripped my shoulders but I couldn't look up, I couldn't. "I...I don't..." I don't know what's wrong with me. All I have to do is say it but I can't. I don't know how I was ever able to speak before. It's so hard and my throat won't open and I can't breathe and now there's a hand on my chin, there's a thumb on my jaw and it's moving back and forth gently and smoothly back and forth.

And the hands are off my shoulders and my head is being lifted by the hand under my jaw. And I'm looking up now and he's over me. His crimson hair is falling forward over the sides of his face and his face is right in front of mine. And his other hand is gripping the back of the seat behind me.

And I'm entranced by the solar systems in his eyes. And he may be looking back forth between mine, but I can't tell. All I can see is his sparkling voids and I want to touch them. And I want to touch his creasing eyebrows and the concerned line between them. And I do-I reach-I lift my arm.

My hand moves to the top of his cheek, directly under his large starry eyes. My index finger brushes the tip of his long lashes and ghosts around the top of his lid.