cold| mattheo riddle ⚕

Thou whose breath empoisons the sweet air,
Whose heart is evil, and whose mind despair;
Whose baleful tongue the fairest fame can blight,
Whose deeds of horror shun the eye of light.

How cam'st thou, fiend, upon this earth to dwell?
Did thy perturbed spirit rise from hell?
Or from the close-ribb'd rock in tempest torn?
For thou of woman-kind wert never born.

Look in his aspect--shame ne'er made it glow;
Enthron'd sits crimson murder on his brow;
While ambush'd in his fierce demoniac eye,
Fraud, and the baser passions, scowling lie.

-Charlotte Dacre.

"He was glaring straight at me with such disgust in his eyes. It made my skin crawl, I could feel the hatred oozing out of him with one look."

Everyone has secrets. You do, I do. However sometimes we don't even know them ourselves.

Ruby Hunt and her older brother are forced to Hogwarts by their brutal stepfather who has very harsh expectations and even harsher consequences. Sorted into an unexpected house and making some interesting friends, and enemies, it becomes a spiralling path of discovery, mistakes and the truth.

"we are not our families..."
"this is so much bigger than that."