songs for the dying

The songs blended so wonderfully, so entrancing, so perfectly grand that he felt he could listen to it for the rest of his life. But another wave of full-body shivers wrecked him, and he nearly fell over, eyes flying open as he caught himself just in time. It was then that he saw her, every inch of her pale and colourless. But her eyes---her eyes were a deep, endless black, and when she smiled, it felt like someone had just walked over his grave.