the two queens || @ignaviaexcusatus
It wasn't quite like looking in a mirror, she realized. Marry could feel her heart thrumming, could feel the pulse in her throat, her head, echoing so loudly in her ears she wanted to scream to drown the sound out. No... not like a mirror. It was as though her eyes were downcast, watching her reflection smile back up at her through scattered shards of glass. Black, black glass. There was no emotion in the girl's face, her eyes were void of any feeling and--she swallowed thickly.
"You're not me,"
Nearly sobbing now. A desperate plea, perhaps, to deny the existence of the path her other self had fallen down. She wondered how many times she'd been through it. How many times she'd seen them die. How many times she herself would have to.
"No... I'm not a monster, you're not--"
There were tears now, and she stumbled backwards, ivory locks whipping wildly about her face as she shook her head. This is just a dream. Just a dream, I'll wake up, like I always do. I will. She closed her eyes, breaths leaving her trembling lips in short pants. It wasn't though, it wasn't a dream. And when her eyes lifted the queen remained, a perfectly broken and twisted mirror image of who she used to be.
















