Background:
So my writers block continues and I truly have no idea what to write,
I apologize. This is just something I scraped up from the remnants of
creativity in my mind, a short story of an evil woman with the intent
of gaining power but gaining something so much more valuable.
Short
Story # - Crystal
Azaria
looked at the crystal in her palm, the twinkling surface and the
power it represented. She chose not to look at the mundane bodies
that littered the ground around her, their decaying bodies rotting in
the dark alley. Fifteen of them to try and protect the crystal she’d
tried so hard to obtain. She heard him before he stepped to her side,
the insider who had helped her retrieve the gem.
“Are
you pleased now, milady?” Domnicus murmured; his breath a cloud of
whiteness on the blackened air of evening. Even the streetlamps
appeared to be choked by the darkness. Azaria trailed a pale white
hand down his arm, lacing her fingers through his. They looked like
the sun and the moon, his skin sun-bronzed whilst hers resembled the
whiteness of the moon’s face.
“Indeed
I am,” she said, gazing into the crystal. Domnicus said something
but she couldn’t hear him, a rushing noise blocking out the night.
The crystal burst into a sudden bright light, blinding Domnicus and
forcing him to his knees but the light was somehow caressing Azaria.
In the crystal she saw the nightmares she always suffered, the
childhood she had learned to bury in the recesses of her mind.
The
abuse that had led her to searching for the crystal and its power.
Azaria
gasped as the light found the veins in her wrists and started filling
her, killing her. Her inner wounds healed and light shone through her
skin, her veins pure white. All of the darkness vanished, the pain
too and she found herself lying on her back, gazing up at the sky.
Her eyelids were heavy and as she shut them to the world she was
released from the weight she hadn’t realized was there.
The
angel of death had come to claim her, the crystal too much to bear.
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