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She needed to be ended.
I touched her. She flinched but didn’t try to escape my grip.
I was expecting to see her mind and put a stop to her twisted state. I would kill her, and this would all be over.
She was like a sickness that needed to be cut off. The Realms would be better off without her.
Her mind tried to push me away, but it was of no use. She could not fight me, not when I was determined to end her existence.
But when I looked into her, I saw it.
“You did this on purpose?” I mumbled.
As the words slipped my mouth, we became.
I left my body where it was, and entered her mind completely.
Pure darkness encapsulated me.
Nothing surrounded me until she came.
The Queen of Light appeared before me, an old woman, clutching onto her youth. Her face was morphing in between the two versions. But I forced myself to look.
The darkness around us took shape upon my curiosity, forcing her to come with me to look at what she had done.
A large gap appeared before us. It was a cut. An amputation that took away the real thing instead of the dead one.
“What is that?” I asked, afraid to look any closer into the darkness, lest it sweep me in as well.
She didn’t respond. She kept morphing between the two versions, old and young.
“You did this to yourself?” I asked again, examining the edges of the cut.
It was a rough cut. Not precise like surgery but done quickly and without thought like the cutting of a leg with a blunt weapon...
“I did,” she said. “When I was young... It was the only way.”
She had turned herself into something dull and lifeless. She had cut off a part of herself, thinking it was only a fragment when it had been her true self. I could see it now. Where that gap existed now, her connection to others had been before. Until she put an end to it.
“You had mind magic,” I said. “You were like me. A double fae with healing and mind magic. But... How did? How did you do this? Why did you do this?”
She met my gaze.
“Their minds were too much,” she finally said. “Pain and suffering. They felt so much pain.”
“Caused by you,” I whispered.
She nodded.
“So you used your healing magic to change yourself?” I asked. “You destroyed your mind magic to silence their thoughts? So that you could kill and torture without feeling guilty over it?”
“I killed no one,” she said. “I just told others to do so.”
“That’s not an excuse,” I snapped.
“Isn’t it?” the queen asked. “They could have said no.”
“And you would order them killed as well,” I interrupted her.
