Stay for a while

"We wed on a fall morning. The smell of damp earth filled the small church. Her hands trembled in mine with what I thought to be excitement. Excitement for our union. Joy for our new future. It was all a blur until I was awakened by a pounding in my head and that same scent of earth. I was no longer swathed in the warmth of my bed and plunged into darkness. How curious is this? I do believe my blushing bride is burying me alive!" 

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“My lost lover’s locket returned to me on the anniversary of him vanishing. His picture seemingly torn out in a frenzy. With my face, 3 years younger, staring back to me. The scent of freshly turned soil and pine trees lingered in the room. My bedroom window had been left wide open — the moon shining back at me, full with a secret she refused to tell me.”

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Awakening “I was laid to rest here. Mirrors covered. The sound of my mother’s sobbing rocking me gently into this place. I remember moonlit skin - cold and the color of starlight. Mesmerizing embers. Whispered questions and only the death rattle in my lungs to respond. A flame licking the inside of my chest. It burned me from the inside out - consuming every scream that wanted to burst from me. I remember stillness that night and the smell of iron filling my nose. I no longer wore the smell of death like a perfume — for I was something else now. I was awake.” 🕯 ——- Happy first of Halloween! I hope you enjoy these short snippets of writing and illustrations throughout the month. 🖤

Sir James is known throughout the lands as the most fearsome and honorable warrior. Ballads have been written about him. Men fear him. He is the most trusted knight of the King Henry. So why has he given up the glories of war and pledged his loyalty to Princess Y/N? 

“Where you go, I will always follow, Your Highness.”