Freedom. An odd term, isn't it? Freedom. Something no one can take from you. Freedom the ability to think for yourself, to control your limbs. What happens when you can't? What happens when that small liberty is stolen from you? You lose reason to live.
Envy, greed, lust, wrath, sloth, pride, and gluttony. All considered sinful traits, all dark traits, all traits that can transform a person. Turn ambitions into horror, cloud the differences between right and wrong. Tell me stranger, what would you do to stop these traits from taking over? Would you be willing to kill?
In a world where the dark is a blessing, a cover for what one thinks is the passage to 'freedom', he fears it. But to be made of the dark, and be in the dark makes you blend in. To become a shadow is a curse, a blood-thirsty, soulless creature. A curse that hurts to fight, but a curse that hurts people around you when given into. So what'll it be? Selfish? Or selfless?
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Sorry it's been a year I'm not gonna ARCHIVED
I saw her long before she saw me. She didn't know then that her fate had already been sealed, that every step she took was drawing her closer to me. Closer to what she would become.
There was something in her-something fragile, something wild. A fear she tried to hide, wrapped in defiance and confidence. It was intoxicating, watching her, knowing that no one else could see what I saw. No one else could feel the pull like I did. The slow, deliberate unraveling of her world as it would soon be tethered to mine.
I felt my heart beat once, hard and fast. It was the only signal I needed. She would be mine-not in some fleeting, hollow way. No. I would strip away every shield, every defense, until she was laid bare, body and soul.
And when she looked at me for the first time, I knew.
She was already mine.
A.
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