without your past, you could never have arrived so wondrously and brutally, by design or some violent, exquisite happenstance

...here.

𝙼𝚄𝚁𝙺𝚈𝙷𝙰𝚉𝙴𝙳‌ !

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          𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐖𝐈𝐓.  and truthfully he hoped that there would be a next time.  she didn’t deserve to be locked in here, or be pursued by snow for an accident.  and he didn’t deserve to be trapped either.  maybe one day they would both secure their freedom and put this painful past behind them.  ❝ well next time i give you full permission to knock me unconscious.  if it helps you get away. ❞  meant to be playful, but there is a seriousness behind it.  he hates having to capture her and if there can be one time he doesn’t have to be the root of her disappointment ?  he’d be more than happy to take the pain.

          ❝ they may not be my choices but people still suffer because of what i have to do.  there are many nights i think about the lives i’ve taken.  innocent people who have done no harm but are forced to suffer the wrath of snow.  and she never does her own dirty work, it’s always me.  so even if it isn’t directly my fault that guilt still weighs heavy on my shoulders. ❞

though her smile falters, it does not fade away. she knew misplaced guilt more than anything, she knew snow’s wrath more than anyone. she had no answer to his dilemma, no answers to her own, either. all she could offer was empty promises of something better.  ‘  i just hope, one day, things are different.  ’  and, if tonight was the last time this happened, which was becoming more and more possible as the seconds crept by, things would be very different. unless she could come up with a plan quickly.

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she had the slightest of advantages, always had, since her mother was a witch herself. fundamentally, magic wasn’t much of a mystery to her, but she couldn’t be too safe.   ‘   is she … watching us ?   ’   the walls had ears and anything reflective was bound to be used to spy.

THEME BY FAIRSTS