once upon a nightmare - l.s.

14. Demands and Awakenings

Song of the Chapter: Sway - The Kooks
"Still I need your sway, because you always pay for it
And I, and I need your soul because you're always soulful
And I and I need your heart, because you're always in the right places"

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HARRY HAS LIVED TO SEE FIVE Hundred potential heirs, each one alike the other. Fierce, strong, resistant, hard headed, and obstinate. All match up to what Stellarum's prophecy spoke of a Luna, of a queen. But they lacked just one characteristic,

Compassion.

One of the most emphasized idiosyncrasy of all. The ability to have mercy, to have patience, to have sympathy and understanding. The ability to be a solace.

Five hundred.

All five hundred have been tested.

Dosed by magic, and their minds put under a simulation. A false reality that is used to see if any of them are the ones the prognostication states.

It all starts the same.

You enter a market place, and are put in front of a man who claims that you have kept him alive all these years, and that he is ready to taste death.

You refuse, for you do not want to kill.

The man pleads again, you deny.

This continues until the man tells the unforgivable actions he has committed. Something cracks inside of you, spilling all the hatred and the utter disgust you hold. The crack spills out black, venomous, burning, hate. It is then when the tested heir begins to let their walls submit, ready to put the elderly man to his desired everlasting slumber.

Then you have failed.

But why?

Why would you fail? You killed a malicious being, you should have passed.

Because, if you could have not handled what sins the elderly man has held inside him,

How could you possibly handle what sins Harry has committed?

How could you possibly be a solace? A haven? A Luna? A remedy?

Stellarum holds more crime, immortality, wickedness, and sinister doings than what the elderly man has done in the simulation. Only a true queen to the throne can overcome it and cut away the evil.