#Pre-Stella

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🥀The Shadow in the Mirror🗡️- ONE SHOT [Pre-Stellarium]

⚠️CONTENT WARNING⚠️: Hallucinations, Delusions, and Graphic Depictions of SH

A rewritten piece of one I did back in 2022. This was originally supposed to be a quick piece to showcase Venueri's destructive tendencies that turned into 5 pages of nonsense very quickly.

As the TW above says, please keep in mind that there will be heavy SH in the story.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:**:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

✧ Sitting at the vanity in her expansive yet so empty bedroom, Venueri stared at her reflection with slight contempt. 

VENUERI: [“Look at yourself…”]

✧ Brushing the parted bangs more to the side, her eyes locked onto the marking that decorated her forehead. 

✧ Her brows furrowed,

VENUERI: [“...why did I inherit this?”] 

✧ With her pupils akin to slits and her vision going out of focus, she could hear the voice of someone play in her head.

MALUM: [“I love your markings, Venueri! There’s no need to feel shame over them.”]

✧ Such simple words, words that would once bring her comfort, now made her nauseous. 

✧  She gripped the edge of the vanity with such strength that her claw-like nails made new grooves in the wood. 

VENUERI: “Calm down… Calm down…” 

✧ An useless effort, she knew that, she has done this before. 

✧ Feeling something move behind her, she manages to shoot her eyes back up to the mirror before her. 

VENUERI: “!!!!” 

✧ She froze in place.

MALUM: “...Venueri.”

✧ She couldn't make a sound as her winged ears lowered in panic and fear. 

✧ She felt like she was going to vomit.

MALUM: “Why did you do it, Venueri?”

✧ Those were words that have haunted her for years and years. 

✧  The shadowy figure stared her down from over her shoulder as she tried to mutter out an answer. 

VENUERI: “I…I…I didn’t—” 

✧ The shadow shook his head.

MALUM: “I trusted you, Venueri.”

✧ Her hands trembled as he spoke.

MALUM: “You betrayed me.” 

✧ The shadow moved closer, making her want to curl up and hide. 

MALUM: “You could have saved me. Us.”

VENUERI: “What could I have done…?” 

✧ The part of her mind begging her to think spoke out before an onslaught of laughter came from behind her. 

✧ Their whispers like the cicadas in the summer buzzed in her ears before a hand gripped her shoulder

MALUM: “Ven… I’m right here.”

✧ She looked into the blurry face of the man behind her, his smile managing to feel the same as it used to.

✧ With her shoulder tense and her breathing becoming short, she waited for him to speak. 

MALUM: “You’re… a protector, right?” 

✧ His smile was charming, 

MALUM: “Why didn’t you help us?”

✧ The water began to well in her eyes, 

VENUERI: “I…” 

MALUM: “Surely we were worth protecting.”

✧ Every word was another bullet wound to the chest. 

VENUERI: “I couldn’t save you… Mother would have—”

✧ She could barely get that out before the Malum that stood by her now began speaking again. 

MALUM: “Why did you allow her to do such things?”

✧ She knew the answer to that. 

VENUERI: “Nothing could have been done; Mother’s words are absolute!”

✧ She glanced back at her own reflection for a split-second. 

✧ She looked horrified.

✧ Malum shook his head in seeming disapproval. 

MALUM: “Absolute? Simply because she labeled herself as a God?”

✧ Tears made themselves known as they dripped down her cheeks. 

VENUERI: “She punishes us if we don’t!”

✧ Images of her sister’s arm being ripped clean off her body in a ruthless display by their Mother flashed for a moment as if to remind her of her place. 

✧ Somewhere deep down, however… 

MALUM: “You deserve such punishment.” 

✧ She somehow agreed. 

✧ As if commanded, her eyes take their focus off the mirror and to a knife that laid only somewhat hidden under a cloth. 

✧ It’s the least she deserves. 

✧ The voices of others chattered endlessly as the shadowy figure of Malum gestured to the clean knife.

MALUM: “You know you do.”

✧ Like she was possessed, her hands reach for the knife while the chorus of voices grew. 

✧ “You deserve this.”

✧ “It’s only fair!”

✧ “You should have saved them.”

✧ “You’re too weak to do anything.”

✧ “You’ll never be able to protect anything you love.”

✧ Her fingers wrapped around the handle of the knife a little too tightly as she brought it closer to her person. 

✧ While her grip was choking, her hands still shook.

✧ She hesitated for a moment, 

MALUM: “You know, it really makes me happy when you bleed.”

✧ Any other state of mind and Venueri would have known those words did not belong to her dear friend.

✧ But, here– now…

✧ The tip of the knife met with the pale, porcelain skin of her arm.

VENUERI: “I deserve this…It’s the least I can do…” 

✧ The blade slices open in a clean line. 

✧ The jeering and mocking voices become softer as her world seems to spin. 

✧ Another cut is made hastily. 

VENUERI: “I’m sorry.” 

✧ And another. 

VENUERI: “It should have been me.” 

✧ Soon, the warm red of stardust and nebula blood is dribbling down to the hardwood floors and onto her nightgown; her whole arm is covered in large gashes. 

✧ The sight and scent of her own blood made her feel dizzy.

VENUERI: “I’m a monster; a demon– a devil.”

✧ The knife in her hand moved from her arm to the marks on her hands. 

✧ The knife made quick work in mauling up her hand as she sucked air in through her gritted, sharp teeth.

MALUM: [“I love your markings, Ven—”]

✧ Markings…

✧ Those words from the past made her look up into the mirror once again. 

✧ Markings….

✧ Her eyes lock onto the mark on her forehead.

MALUM: [“The Goddess is your Mother?”]

✧ Words like knives come flooding to her head. 

✧ Snarling and throwing the knife down, she opts for her sharp nails. 

✧ She no longer bothered to hide her sobbing as her nails like claws scratch and claw at her forehead. 

✧ The stardust and nebula red drip down her face while she wails, 

VENUERI: “Why?! Why?!”

✧ What she was exactly asking and to whom was beyond even her.

✧ Her tears and blood mix together, the stinging of her wounds making her even more delirious. 

VENUERI: “Why did it have to be him? Why did it have to be them?!”

MALUM: “Venueri, I—”

✧ She swore she could hear Malum saying something, the outside world felt so far away even though he was right there. 

✧ The voices of the others whispered mockingly, of how she was repenting, of how her blood and suffering was so small compared to those she had failed. 

✧ Hands laid gently on her shoulders, urging her to look up. 

MALUM: “Venueri.”  

✧ He opened his mouth, but she didn’t hear anything. 

✧ Just the crackling static and nonsense filled her ears.

VENUERI: “I’m hopeless;” 

✧ She spoke to the reflection in a daze. 

MALUM: “Venueri.”

✧ He speaks her name again. 

VENUERI: “Worthless.”

✧ She looks at Malum’s reflection as it twists and contorts. 

✧ The smile he wore filled with blood, dripping down his face. 

✧ The bloody holes she had left him with start taking up his body.

✧ So… many… holes…

MALUM: “V e n u e r i…”

✧ She could see that he was wrapping his arms around her, but she couldn’t feel him. 

✧ She was numb. 

✧ The Malum that stood before her met her eyes, somehow, in the mirror. 

✧ The words he would say synchronizing with those of the past long gone. 

MALUM: “I love you—” 

✧ And within a flash—

✧ All of them vanished. It all went utterly silent.

VENUERI: “What?” 

✧ Bewildered, Venueri goes to stand from the chair. 

✧ Her eyes, now dull and lifeless, glance around the room.

✧ Where did they…?

✧ The weight of a thousand suns seemed to suddenly fall upon her, getting heavier with every step she took around the room. 

✧ When she finally made it to the large bed, all her strength was spent, and she fell over onto the covers. 

✧ Her eyes drooping, she somehow still finds the energy to mutter to herself. 

✧ Her questions to her Mother and her pleas would fade as she slowly allowed the urge to rest finally overtake her. 

✧ Closing her eyes, her consciousness would fade, allowing her a small moment of peace. 

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:**:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

*:･ﾟENDﾟ: *

[impassociate]

What if they crossed paths again before the birthday party?

[thesaintlaurent]

[ehcahache]

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[akirakirxaa]

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But she couldn't risk this war mongering upstart bringing danger to her family.

So, with trepidation in her heart, she bid them farewell as she was called upon once more.

[spicyicymeloncat]

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