MABEL
She watched and waited for Evelyn’s gravity to pull the relic along, or for it to crash to the floor, scatter and smash into a million pieces. Either way was satisfying, and there was a deep sense of longing for such a power, for something other than her useless vessel and shell. She couldn’t be envious of her sister, the only individual she had left, but it didn’t make the craving, the insatiable need, any better. Any less.
The suggestion made had her eyes rounding briefly, before narrowing into a specious, dangerous gaze. The smirk wrapped around her lips grew tighter, then broader, claiming her features for the wickedness eternally lurking underneath. “Brilliant. Let me get you a couple more.” No hesitation for what they were about to do – to inflict pain on followers of fools. Fuck the Old Gods. Fuck their hapless peons and pawns who flocked to their heralds and figures, who begged and pleaded and were discarded like flies. Like nothing.
Her family hadn’t been nothing.
The youth grabbed ahold of a few more, some small, some medium, and tossed them in the same way she’d done before. Then she scurried back to her pew, to her row, to watch and wait again.
The suggestion made had her eyes rounding briefly, before narrowing into a specious, dangerous gaze. The smirk wrapped around her lips grew tighter, then broader, claiming her features for the wickedness eternally lurking underneath. “Brilliant. Let me get you a couple more.” No hesitation for what they were about to do – to inflict pain on followers of fools. Fuck the Old Gods. Fuck their hapless peons and pawns who flocked to their heralds and figures, who begged and pleaded and were discarded like flies. Like nothing.
Her family hadn’t been nothing.
The youth grabbed ahold of a few more, some small, some medium, and tossed them in the same way she’d done before. Then she scurried back to her pew, to her row, to watch and wait again.
I bare my teeth
and stretch my claws out
and stretch my claws out
