Ebony White (A Snow White Tale)

Truth be Told for The Blind

She wasn't at all surprised to see her mother standing before her. It was only a matter of time before that crow  said something or her mother figured it out on her own.

She watched as her mother grew pale as she squeezed the heart in her hand. It was warm and blood was dropping down her hand and arm and drippig onto the floor.

It had been quiet easy to kill the dwarf. Much easier than it had been to kill the others one by one and make them all look like accidents.

Her mother stepped closer slowly but stopped when Ebony brought the warm heart up to her lips and bit into it, tearing out a chunk before dropping the remainder of the heart onto the floor where it landed with a dull thump.

The dwarfs heart tasted much better then the hearts of those little woodland creatures she had devoured the night the dwarf found her.

Despite her snack her mother still walked forward and stopped a meter from her daughter, her face no longer pale but red and her teeth were bared. Her mother was furious. But despite being angry she stilled looked down to the dead dwarf.
   "I thought those beasts were helping you? Keeping you alive?" She asked, still not understanding.

Ebony looked down at the dwarf.
   "Oh, they were. And I made sure to thank very one of them for their hospitality. The same way I thanked the mice that freed me from the gown you had made to kill me.
   The same way I thanked the fish who washed the poison from my hair when you tried to poison me with that comb.
   And I thanked the hunter the same way as well. I thanked them by having them all killed."

She watched as her mother's face again paled. Only now did the witch understand what her daughter was capable of.

   "How did you kill them child?" Her mother asked. "Surely you had help. I know the magic you hold within you."
   "No you don't. You do not know the magic I hold within me. You never have. And I did have all the creatures who helped me killed. And I'll tell you how so you know the magic I hold within myself.
   First I had the mice killed and eaten by the crow by leaving the mice on the window sill of the open window.
   Next I granted the fish the ability to breath above water and they didn't know where to hide on land when the crow came down for them as well.
Then I gave the hunter a piece of the gown you tired to kill me with. The one that shrunk until it killed whomever wore it. Silly women thought it was a necklace and put it around her throat. But she was clever enough to cut out the bores heart in place of mine before putting it on."

   "And what of the dwarves. I was told there were seven." Her mother smirked at her like she was a child. She clearly didn't believe Ebony.

  "They were simple to get rid of.
   The first one was already asleep so I just had to strangle him until his sleeping breathes stopped.
   The next one had a terrible allergy to almost everything. I only had to put him somewhere that would kill him.for me.
   The one after that required some thinking and planning, I admit. But that dwarf was stupid enough to think that someone, especially a Prince, would find him attractive and take him as his male bride. I made an illusion to fool him and he fell completely in love with it. All I had to do from there was give my phantom Prince a knife.
   The next one I drowned. It was soo stupid. It tried to do as I did and drowned itself by magically staying under the surface for to long." The wicked smile Ebony had grew as she talked. "I used a spell I found one day about poisoning food," her mother almost reacted, "to kill the one after that.
   The next one was killed by my own magic as well, though a different kind." Ebony flicked out her hands and white wisps of smoke curled from them. "And the last one I simply grew to bored at having to wait until it fell asleep. So I killed him and ate a part of his heart I pulled from his chest." A sort of childish glee filled Ebony's eyes then. "Aren't you proud of me mother? I'm just as evil as you now."

Ebony waited for her mother's reply and after waiting a moment a tear slid from her mother's eye.
   "Of course I'm proud of you. A mother couldn't wish for a better daughter." Her mother wiped away the tear and opened her arms, wishing to embrace her daughter in a motherly hug.

Ebony suddenly grew weary.
   "Don't you wish to kill me mother? I know why you wanted to kill me. I'm the Fairest beauty and you are not. Don't you wish to kill me for my beauty?"

   "Not anymore child. I'm so proud I couldn't care less anymore about the way I appeared. And to make sure you believe me," her mother reached into her coat and pulled out an apple, though it was a special apple. One half was sweet and the other half bitter. The sweet half had blood red shiny healthy skin, while the bitter half had skin as pale as bone. The apple was Ebony's favourite as a child. "Please come home daughter."

Ebony reached for the apple. Her fingers were about to wrap around the fruit when the crow flew into the cave and knocked the fruit out of her mother's hand and started to attack the witch.