When Angels Die

My first mistake

I waited for her. They sent me because I didn't exist. I was a ghost to her, a demon.  Invisible. I was sent to watch the Pure One die.

I watched as she spiraled down into the freezing lake. I did nothing. As I heard her splash beneath water level I knew she wouldn't last long. There was an aching in my barren heart. What if someone had witnessed my death? Would they have cared enough to make an effort to stop it?

I couldn't take it. I found myself running to the edge of the water, and dove.
I made no splash. I wasn't there.

I saw her struggling to take another breath. I swam closer, wrapping my arms around her waist, pulling her up through the water to land.
She looked at me, her mouth forming an o.
She could see me? How? She was the Pure One! She wasn't supposed to be able to see me, I was evil!

I tore through the water, dropping her on the sandy beach, then sprinting away from the frozen lake, retreating through the overgrown weeds to the safety of the dark forest trimming the great mountain.

I watched as she lay on the beach, recovering from her fall. God, she was so beautiful.
But I knew I couldn't stay.
If she really had seen me, it could mean bad things with the council. I had disobeyed direct orders and saved a girl I was supposed to kill.
Most would regret the decision, but somehow I knew I never would.

"We have a problem, My lord. The boy fledgling. He disobeyed and saved the pure one. He is no longer with us.

That moment was supposed to lay out my entire life. That cold blooded murder was supposed to revoke my fledgling title. But I couldn't do it. Maybe I was too good to be evil.
But I couldn't let my failure stop me.
I had to run, from the council. They would be hunting me. They would not stop until I was punished severely for my actions.

I didn't know what was going to happen to me.

I saved the pure one.

She was everything good in the world. She was everything the Angel guard fought to protect.
As long as she was alive, evil couldn't rule. That's why the demon realm wanted her dead so badly. And she was saved. By me, a demon.