He’ll give you exactly what you want—your strength, your beauty, your voice. Then he’ll wear it when he leaves you behind.
She made you feel seen… didn’t she? That’s how it starts. That’s how all of them start.
He rides with no herald, no trumpet, no banner. Just ash. And silence. And judgment.
She comes not with an army—but with silence, roses, and a tide of blood. And then you're already hers.
“Light what you trust. Snuff what you don’t.”
“Count the breaths. Tie the ribbon. What is ours, we keep.”
“Wax remembers the heat of a life. I listen to it cool.”
“Chew slow at midnight and let the bad dreams stick to the sugar, not to you.”
“My sweets don’t make people honest. They make dishonesty unbearable.”
His eyes are cinders, and his voice is a wound. He doesn’t raise the dead—he calls them home.
We don’t say her name in the courthouse anymore. If you do, she makes the ceiling fall. Or worse—she speaks.
If you see black fire drifting above a battlefield, turn around. That’s not smoke. That’s him.