#what would have happened to raven if she fell victim of her mother's manipulation and turned her into a real villain

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lowkey thinking rn 2 am thoughts im thinking abt rewriting and redesigning crystal winter... she has so much potential to be such a compelling character but unfortunately she was victim of terrible writing

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To the Antis who “hate Reylo”: Disney/LF will teach us that love (of all kind) is the answer to hate

I. Why “Reylo hate” is non sense in the context of a Disney fairytale

I must admit that until very recently I hadn't realized how much some part of the fandom is so strongly against Reylo and against Kylo's redemption in general. I never really got interested in knowing how other people than openly Reylos see Kylo Ren and his relationship with Rey. But since the release of the trailer, I became interested in people's opinion and I find it incredible to see on tumblr so many people stating "I hate Reylo"  as if hate was the proper answer to their frustration regarding where the story is headed. If I could do one thing to prove you  that hating Reylo ain't a proper answer, I would recommend you to read this wonderful post by @acekyloren:

Anakin, Luke, Rey, Kylo Ren & Balancing the Force: Why Love is the Answer, Not Hate http://acekyloren.tumblr.com/post/166633462695/anakin-luke-rey-kylo-ren-balancing-the-force Seriously, I consider this is the best post I have ever read in the fandom until now because this is exactly the lesson that we - Reylo, Antis, GA - wil be teached by Disney/LF with the ST. Until now, the idea was that the LS and the DS were incompatible and thus balancing the Force for the Jedi meant any trace of the DS. War was always the answer to that mutual "hate" between the LS and the DS.Visceral Antis fail to see that for the time in the main SW franchise, we have two people caught in the middle of this eternal war beteen the DSand the LS like Romeo and Juliet caught in the middle of the war between their families or Tony and Maria from WSS caught in the middle of the war between their clans.

What do visceral Antis want by hating Reylo: that Kylo and Rey kill each other and this eternal war keep going? That Kylo and Rey end up as star-crossed lovers victims of this eternal war?

No way that things end up like this because the ST is a Disney fairytale. And what do Disney fairytale teach the GA?

That love of all kind is always the answer to war:

1) Pocahontas

Pocahontas: "Look around you! This is where the path of hatred have brought us! [Love] is the path I choose"

Pohatam"My daughter speaks with the wisdom of hundred years. We've all come here with anger in our heart! She comes with courage and understanding"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dNqclpMBwQ

2) Lion King 2

Kiara: "A wise king once told me "we are one". I didn't understand? Now, I do!"

Simba: "But they..."

Kiara: "Them? Us! Look at them! They are us! What difference do you see?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJdmSsXvT

3) TLJ teaser

Luke: "What do you see?" Rey: "Light [Rey’s theme in the background]...Darkness [Kylo’sthemein the background]...A balance..." Luke: "It's so much bigger!"

In a Disney fairytale, love, compassion and understanding  is always  the answer to the eternal war between the Dark side and the Light side. And Disney/LF will teach us this lesson with the ST.

II. Not convinced that Star Wars is a Disney fairytale?  

J.J. Abrams: “You’re going to have a castle, a Prince and a Princess if you look at a fairytale “

There are always three key characters in a Disney fairytale:

- A villain

- A Princess

- A Prince

In a Disney fairytale, the villain is generally a old manipulative mother/father figure who targets a Princess from birth with an evil purpose and achieves her evil plan no matter how the royal family tries to protect her. The villain uses manipulation/trick to make the Princess fall in a trap or keep her under his grip.

Guess who is the Prince(ss)  targeted from birth by a  manipulative villain?

Not convinced?

From the TFA novelization:

He met her eyes steadily. “We’ve lost our son, forever.”

Leia bit her lower lip, refusing to concede. “No. It was Snoke.”

Han drew back slightly. “Snoke ?”

She nodded. “He knew our child would be strong with the Force. That he was born with equal potential for good or evil.”

[...]

He had trouble believing what he was hearing. “So Snoke was watching our son.”

“Always,” she told him. “From the shadows, in the beginning, even before I realized what was happening, he was manipulating everything, pulling our son toward the dark side.

Doesn’t that remind you of a Disney fairytale ? 

A Princess cursed from birth by an evil witch, sent away by her family to protect her and falling into her trap despite all attempts to protect her ?

Merryweather: “ Sweet princess, if through this wicked witch's trick, a spindle should your finger prick... a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, when true love's kiss, the spell shall break. 

Once you understand that in that story Snoke is  actually  the real vilain, Kylo is actually the Princess who nees to be saved from the “spell” and Rey the Prince who represents the ray of hope , things become more clearer. Then, you understand that Kylo may not be the villain you though he is. He is actually some dark version of Princess Aurora. 

Not convinced? 

Han to Ben: “Snoke is using you for your power. When he gets what he wants, he’ll crush you!”

Earlier in the movie...

Admiral Ackbar: How is it possible to power a weapon of this size (= Snoke)?

Finn: It uses the power of the sun (= Ben). As the weapon is charged, the sun is drained until it disappears.

In which fairytale did we see that?

Rapunzel to Gothel: “I’ve spent my entire life hiding from people who would use me for my power when I should have been hiding from you”

In Tangled: a story of a Princess targeted by a witch named Mother Gothel because her hair have healing power coming from the Sun. For which purpose? To maintain herself young forever!

The relationship between Gothel and Rapunzel is based is  an intimate and exclusive mother/daughter relationship based on manipulation.

In TFA novelization:

When next Snoke spoke, there was an intimacy in his voice, a familiary that stood in sharp contrast with the commanding  tone he hadused with Hux:

“I have never had a student with such promise - before you. The finest sculptor cannot fashion a masterpiece from poor materials. He must have something pure, something strong, something unbreakable, with which to work. I have - you.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeoVFSCzlSY

Call me crazy folks! But I think that the real love triangle isn’t between Kylo/Rey/Finn but between Snoke/Kylo/Rey because Rey is the ray of hope who represents a threat for whatever evil plan Snoke intends to achieve with Ben.You don’t spend 30 years fashioning a masterpiece just for a random reason. Whatever Snoke’s reasons are, he certainly has creepy intentions

And by the way, alot of people consider the interrogation scene as the proof that Reylo is an abusive ship. May I point these parallels:

Friendly reminder that this is how the relationship between the two characters evolved:

Still not convinced that Ben is the Prince(ss) targeted by the evil villain in that story ?

Lor San Tekka (about Princess Leia): “Oh! The General! To me, she is royalty!“

Poe Dameron: “Yes! She certainly is!”

“Once upon a time, in deep winter, a queen was admiring the falling snow, when she saw a rose blooming in defiance of the cold. Reaching for it she pricked her finger and three drops of blood fell.

And because the red seemed so alive against the white she thought, "If only I had a child as white as snow, lips as red as blood, hair as black as a raven's wings, and all with the strength of that rose."

Soon after a daughter was born to the queen and was named Snow White”

Wasn’t Snow White also  targeted by Evil Queen who gave her a poisoned apple?

Another parallel to prove that Snoke is the evil villain manipulating/hypnotizing the cursed Prince(ss):

One last thing for those who think that Kylo won’t be redeemed because of  the patricide:

Which Disney fairytale was based on Hamlet?

Bonus:

Scar: “Tell them who is responsible for Mufasa’s death?”

Simba: “I am...”

Scar : “You see! He admits it! Murderer!“

Simba: “No! It was an accident [...] I am no murderer!”

Later...

Scar: “Here is  my little secret! I killed Mufasa!”

In Disney fairytales, the villain and his evil purpose are  always introduced to the GA at the beginning so that there can’t be any mistake. Had J.J.Abrams kept these lines from the TFA novel in the movie and showed more evidences that Snoke is a SW version of Maleficient, Gothel, Evil Queen, Scar or Frollo, the GA would have certainly interpreted both  the interrogation scene and the patricide scene differently

Until now, Snoke’s purpose remain unclear and it is clear that he hasn’t achieved yet what he intends to do with Ben . To me, it is absolutely clear that he wants something specific from Ben. He has been working with this “pure, strong unbreakable, material “ for 30 years in order to achieve a masterpiece. And we know that he is interested in  Ben’s power made from both the DS and the LS.

You really want the last and only Skywalker heir to pay for his crime and die unredeemed ? Fine! May your wish come true, maybe sooner than you expect because nothing can prevent a Disney villain from achieving his evil plan. If Snoke really wants something from Ben related to his raw power, nothing will prevent him from achieving his evil purpose despite all attempts. Since TLJ is the middle film of the trilogy, the lowest point shall logically happen there. And if you want my opinion, I think that Han’s line may be a foreshadowing for what could potentially happen to Ben by the end of TLJ.

Han : Snoke is using you for your power. When he gets what he wants, he’ll crush you!

What does it means if this happens ?

That Leia who begun her life losing her mother would end her life losing her only son, who by the way share some parallels with his Grandma, not only with his Grandpa

III. Not convinced that Rey represents a “ray of hope” for the Skywalker family?

J.J. Abrams: “In this scene, [Rey] is drawn to this place like Cinderella”

So Rey is set up as a Disney Princess. A lot of people think that her heroin’s consist in finding her family and that her family are the Skywalker. Since she is the heroine, she should  be either Luke’s or Leia’s daughter, right?

If there is one single dialogue to pay attention in regard to Rey’s origins, it is the dialogue she has with Maz Kanata after she found the Skywalker lightsaber.

The whole dialogue hands on a plate her storyarc:

Maz: “Dear child! I see your eyes! You already know the truth! Whomever (her family) you’re waiting for on Jakku, they’re never coming back”

Who is Rey is waiting for on Jakku? Her birth family! And they never ever coming back for Force’s sake, which mean that she will never ever see them again because they’re most probably dead. If not, why does Maz seems so sorry for her and Rey end up crying like this?

And what did J.J. said about this?

J.J. Abrams: “Rey’s parents are not in TFA!“

Maz: The belonging (family) you seek is not behind (past) you! It is ahead (future)!

 What is the belonging Rey seeks? Her family!

And here comes my point : why do people keep believing that family refers automatically to birth family and not future family ?

If Rey’s birth family is dead, how the fuck is she supposed to find the belonging she seeks?

Because the point of the most important part of her character’s journey isn’t to be reunited with her belonging behind  but to find her belonging ahead

In other words, she may not  have the opportunity to reunite with her birth family but she can still  find a future family.

Who is the main family in the SW franchise?

Some people have problem with the heroin not being a Skywalker:  Who told us that the heroine should be a Skywalker by birth ? In real life, your family is where you come from (birth family) but also where you go (future family). And indeed, you become part of your stepfamily by finding a belonging in your partner.So if the Skywalkers aren’t Rey’s birth family, they can still become her step family.

Maz: “Whomever  you’re waiting for on Jakku, they’re never coming back but there is someone who still could. The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead”

So if I follow the reasoning that whomever is referring to  Rey’s birth family, then the someone Maz is referring isn’t part of her birth family. And that someone is the belonging she that will allow her to find a family but not the way she expected

Make what you want from this dear Antis but I doubt that such a young  girl like Rey would find in Luke the belonging that will allow her to become part of the  Skywalker family.

Maz: “Dear child [...]I am no Jedi but I know the Force! It moves through and surrounds every living thing. Close your eyes! Feel it! The light! It’s always been there! It will guide you! The saber, take it! 

This piece of dialogue reminds of this dialogue in a Disney fairytale:

Pocahontas: But Grandmother Willow, what is my path ? How am I gonna find it?

Grandmother Willow: All around you are spirits, child! They live in the earth, in the water, in the stones! If you listen, they will guide you! [...]

Later...

Pocahontas: “[The wind] says something is coming! Strange clouds?

Grandmother Willow: What do you see?

Pocahontas: Clouds! Strange clouds...

You will tell me. Rey is a Skywalker since the Skywalker lightsaber calls to her in Maz’s castle and in the forest

Allright! Then I am coming with this answer!

Maz: “That lightsaber was Luke’s..and his father before him! “

And once again, here an interesting parallel with the Disney fairytale Pocahontas:

Pocahontas: “I have been having a dream [...] I am running into the woods! In front of me there is a arrow! It starts to spin! It spin faster, faster and faster until it stops

Grandmother Willow: “Seems to me that this spinning arrow is pointing down to your path! “

Later...

Pocahontas: “Spinning arrow...

Grandmother Willow: “It is the arrow from your dream!”

Pocahontas: “I was right! It was pointing to him! “

Friendly reminder that the compass belongs to John Smith. You will tell me: but in Pocahontas 2, Pocahontas fall in love with another man!

It dooesn’t matter.  J.J. also refers to Rey as Cinderella and  the same scheme applies very well.

Cinderella running away from the castle without her shoe vs. Rey running away from the castle without the Skywalker lightsaber

One last thing from the canon serie Clone Wars:

Anakin to Padme: “To me, there is nothing more important than the way I feel about you [...] You don’t believe me? I’ll prove it [...]  When I finished constructing my lightsaber, Obi-Wan said to me “Anakin! This weapon is your life!”This weapon is my life! [...] It is yours! Believe me now?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJX7T1BAV7M

IV. Still a doubt about the identity of the Prince?

J.J. Abrams about the unmasking :

“You see Adam Driver and he looks like a Prince”

J.J. Abrams about Kylo and Rey’s meeting:

“ And this moment where she is about to, for the first time, be confronted by Kylo Ren, a character who she’s going to have a very interesting relationship with moving forward. […] 

Both J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson refer to Kylo and Rey as “two disparate pieces coming together” and “two halves of the Dark and the Light”.

Rey: “I need someone to show me my place in all of this”

Kylo: I can show you the ways of the Force!

J. J Abrams: “So there was a very powerful idea that what she desperately wanted was belonging (=family) , which she’ll get, but just not how she expects.”

Make what you want from this but I have never seen a Disney fairytale in which the Prince and the Princess are siblings or cousins for Force’s sake! Once you understand that Snoke has the role of the villain, Kylo of the “Princess” and Rey of the “Prince”, things become clearer.

So to all of us - especially the Anti who "hate Reylo" - I hope LF/Disney will teach us the lesson with the ST that love of all kinds not hate  are the answer. And obviously, this lesson  is needed given how the war and hate between the different Star Wars ships has been going for two years. Ship whatever you want and respect the others

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Alone Together--Chap. Twenty-six

Gees Pitch has a lot of secks in this whole story.

She wasn't always in the form of a child. Long ago, before humans even had the sheer idea of electricity or other worlds, Misery was one of the most powerful spirits along with myself and Death. Back then, when medicine was scarce and medical knowledge was being mistaken for witchcraft and shunned, every human suffered the most from her and Death. We worked in the night, scarcely in the day. I would terrorize them in their nightmares, Misery would haunt their very thoughts, and sometimes the misery she would bestow would lead them to their death. Grim never liked what he called 'crutches', and I didn't like how Misery would feed off of my prey after me. She was a stalker, and I knew-everyone did-she wanted for me to bestow the gift of darkness to her.

She used to be in her own body that she passed in, a young and quite honestly beautiful woman no more than eighteen years old. No one knew of her death besides herself and another spirit who kept herself hidden. Misery would twist and manipulate the truth to the point no one would ask and care anymore, since she wouldn't bother telling her death. If spirits like myself, Jack Frost and Misery died and became us, the death could explain everything about them. My death told of the dedication I had for my family, but the foolishness in believing that the dark could be trusted. Jack's death told of his love for his sister, and his recklessness as a teenager that he so precariously balanced on a string. Misery...well, it's a difficult subject.

She used to have such long hair, blue as it was now. It was like the color of tears, and her skin was so white it was close to borderline silver. Her eyes used to glow a pale aqua as well, almost in the appearance of the tears of the victims she preyed on. Always wore that superior, arrogant smile, too.

But then a war broke out between spirits and Guardians. By then, the Guardians only consisted of Sandy, North and Bunny. Tooth wasn't even a mere thought, and Jack didn't exist at all. The war started after Cupid's sentencing, when he was forced to give up his immortality and force his firstborn to take his immortal namesake, even if he didn't want to. So many spirits were angry with the Elders, believing that Cupid was innocent and that love should be unconditional, not just limiting to those who aren't human. Disagreements broke into violence, and the first one to strike was Misery herself. She hated Cupid, so of course she would side against him. The Elders didn't listen to her, nor wanted her support. So she attacked both sides. She nearly destroyed the entire society of spirits, killing off the faeries Mother Nature had as her children, killing humans as they wept, and purposefully targeting young spirits.

She was mad. Grim had no choice but to destroy her body, but her spirit was still intact. You cannot fully kill a spirit. Only Man in Moon had that power.

That war...I avoided it like the plague. Many of the good spirits grew furious with us "dark" ones, like myself, Misery, Grim, you name it. I hid away in my lair from searching eyes and murderous thoughts. Though miles underground, I could hear the war overhead. Angry screaming, thunder, the ground shaking...I still shudder at the memory of just watching from the distance.

Not like I wanted to participate. I was just defeated, weakened, by the Guardians. It was my first war against them. The second would come five hundred years later, after Tooth would be initiated into the group and Jack would be a new spirit.

Everyone knew she wanted to be looked up to, and not in a family or loving kind of way. She wanted to be superior. Because I held a noble title, she sought for me. Ever since her existence was created, she would hunt me down during my lowest moments and try to bring me to a breaking point. She thought that if she broke me, I would make her a princess, or a queen of nightmares.

Yeah, like that would ever happen.

Once her original body died, she found a younger vessel to use. A younger girl in the colonial times just died from a sickness by the time she found her body, and before Grim could take her away into the light world, Misery took her body for her own use. Though the soul of that innocent child before was gone, the child suffered...Everyone heard a soul far away scream in agony and distress at the sudden intrusion at another spirit.

But...by the time the truce was made, the Elders made the worst decision they could possible make.

They ordered for us to ignore her. Treat her like a child, now that she was in the body of one. Put her in her place, and don't be afraid to defend yourself if she attacks.

I didn't listen to them. I couldn't ignore her, because she continued to find me. She could smell my misery from miles away. I could be by the beach and she'd find me within minutes, when she originally stood in a forest forty seven miles from the beach. That's how strong she was...but she was weakening.

She was weakening because the more she used the vessel of the young child, the more her spirit drained. It was all black magic.

And that's what she was seeking now.

She walked through the woods, almost floating by how swift she was, until she stopped at a cluster of trees. A dim light flickered from inside the darkness of folded trees, acting much like a cave of branches and thorns. With a giggle, she skipped over to the hollow cave, bending her head over to peer inside until her silvery blue hair fell onto the grassy floor of the forest. A thin smile spread across her lips in pleasure.

"Hello, Hecate."

The shadow that sat inside the cave of branches and thorns looked up from underneath her wispy hood, a previous unamused frown turning into a smirk.

"Well, if it isn't Misery herself," the witch greeted, and flourished a hand in front of her and the small cauldron, "Please sit. I have missed socializing with you."

"As have I with you, Hecate," Misery gracefully landed on her knees, her white dress fluttering at the sudden rush.

Hecate pulled back her thin and worn hood to get a good look at the spirit in front of her. Hecate wasn't just any witch. She was The witch. The universal goddess of witchcraft, sorcery, the moon, magic and ghosts. Hecate was one of those spirits lots would avoid, only seeking her in dire situations. Like Mother Nature, Hecate didn't choose teams or followed the ways of good and evil. She often isolated herself, but if people of both mortals or spirits come for help, whether good or evil intentions, she'll grant it. By the Elder's view shared with the Guardians, she was a cruel spirit that had no remorse for her actions, that couldn't care less if her magic murdered humans or destroyed families. Knowing her, she would say she was keeping the balance between good and evil by committing both, but she wasn't. Like Misery, they shared an amusement on the suffering of others. They were like sisters.

Hecate's raven black, curled tresses fell from her head around her shoulders once her hood was down. Misery grinned, liking that her flaming red eyes still shone like the fires of Hell itself. She thought Hecate was the prettiest spirit of all, but certainly not as prettier as she was now.

"I see you've found yourself a new vessel...Cassandra." Hecate drawled, running a nimble finger against her red lips.

Indeed, Misery did. Hecate knew Misery's spirit would die if she didn't find a vessel that lived a longer life than the child form she once took. She almost looked like her old self, with her hair reaching the small of her back and just as tall as she once was, almost inches shorter than me. Her skin retained that silvery bluish hue, and her eyes stayed just as scarily pale as usual. Still, her voice sounded like a child's. That's what made her creepy, a spirit worth fearing.

I hated her for how she was. I was the King of Nightmares, the Bringer of Fear, the Boogeyman. Yet more people feared her than me. I hated her so much. I still do.

Hecate was the only one that knew of Misery's real death, and it was one that once we all learned it, it almost made us pity her. It almost made every single spirit, even the heartless Grim himself, wince and believe she had some sort of right to act like that. Her life as a human was miserable as ever. She was born into aristocracy, or at least the lowest form of it. Her father, without consent of herself and her mother, even her eldest brother, betrothed her to a duke at the age of eighteen. The reasoning behind him was to gain status. But Misery, of course, had to fall in love with the duke. Though the duke was well over thirty-as it was not considered taboo as it is now-he agreed to the marriage immediately. But Misery's daydreams grew sour once the wedding day grew closer. The duke only agreed to get closer to her mother, who at the time was going to go through a divorce with Misery's father. And although knowing he was betrothed to her daughter, she craved him as well.

It's a disgusting story, one that would make anyone want to spit on the ground and sneer in distaste. It certainly became just that when Misery found her mother and her future husband in her own bedroom, fooling around. Heartbroken, she ran to her father to end the marriage, but he refused. Knowing his wife betrayed him didn't bother him the slightest, at least in Misery's eyes. But sure enough, it angered her father. Wrath of pure evil grew in her father, and days before the wedding, he murdered her mother.

Misery tried running away, tried escaping the absolute suffering she had to endure, but the duke tracked her down. He blamed her for the death of his lover, for she was the one who told her father in the first place. Once he found her, he kidnapped her, knocked her unconscious...did unspeakable things to her.

She woke up as the new embodiment of Misery, not hearing Man in Moon's voice besides her new title. She woke up aching, bruised and hurt. She woke up filled with hatred, and wished foulness on everyone in existence for her own misery.

"What brings you here now, little dove?" Hecate asked softly, touching Misery's forehead with her index finger.

Misery smirked, closing her eyes at the frigid cold touch of Hecate before opening her eyes, "I vowed revenge on someone, and I know this revenge will be the end of me."

"Aye," Hecate closed her eyes slowly, removing her finger from Misery's forehead, "I can sense it. Your spirit is dying. You will not survive soon, but I know what you seek."

"Pitch." they both said in unison.

Misery giggled, shifting her sitting position so she was cross legged and sitting up straighter, more dignified like a ruthless queen. "Pitch now devoted the rest of his life to a meager, meaningless human named Alice and her little sister. I want revenge on him for his hatred against me."

"Alice would be a good target. Do you seek to curse her?" Hecate continued running her finger against her red lips.

Misery shook her head, her silver blue tresses fluttering with the cold breeze, "No. At first I thought she would make the perfect target, since she is his love and he is crazy about her."

"Crazy." Hecate nodded in agreement, glancing at her spellbook next to her. Oh, the sheer collections of spells she could use in this situation. So many to choose from!

"But there's someone who poses a much greater weakness, to both of them," Misery grinned maliciously, "It'll both damage Pitch and Alice badly. The price is...deathly, too." she ended with a giggle.

Hecate smirked, "Who then? A Guardian?"

Misery shook her head, "No...her sister."

Hecate paused. Misery meant a lot to her, and she considered her a sister in a way. They related on many boundaries, but...now that Misery wanted to destroy a sisterhood that reminded her of their own made her not want to continue this dark deed. Normally her magic wouldn't phase her at all if it destroyed lives or relationships. But that Misery was targeting the half of a sisterhood...a bitterness grew in her mouth.

Still, she swore to the very fabric of reality that she must do the bidding to those who come to her, evil and good together. Misery was the latter.

With a sigh, hiding the clear emotion of disappointment in her choice, she opened her spell book and flipped a couple of pages, scanning down for the certain formula she needed.

"You do realize...that not only will Pitch track you down for this, but so will the Guardians and her Devout? Pitch will see to your final breath, and make you suffer."

"He'll suffer more than I do. I don't care of the punishment, I want what I want." Misery's voice was tinged with urgency. This needed to get done before the glare of the moon could find her and stop her.

"Fine...so mote it be," Hecate's voice echoed with the wind of the forest.

She drew out a dagger, the handle made of what looked like moonstone and ebony. She pricked her thumb and dropped three drops of blood into the cauldron, and then bidded for Misery to do the same. Once Misery's blood followed, she cleaned the blade with a blessed cloth and dropped the dagger into the bloody water that now turned pitch black in color. Following that were handfuls of crushed herbs, gemstones and bones that she broke in half. She plucked a feather from a crow that sat nearby and stripped it until all that remained of the feather was the stick itself, and dropped the tiny feather bits into the cauldron. Stirring counterclockwise, it glowed a bloody red, and then a dark blue.

Misery oohed at the mixture returning to it's crystal clear, water state. Hecate drew out the dagger, now glimmering with the same bluish hue as Misery's eyes and dripped with blue potion.

"This blade will kill only one person, and that would be the sister herself. Anyone who gets stabbed by this besides her will immediately be healed. Be wise to spare it, because once it strikes its prey...doom will fall onto the murderer. A doom that cannot be undone."

Hecate felt something inside her change. Knowing that Misery was going to seek revenge by killing a woman's little sister, as well as psychologically and emotionally torture the King of Nightmares...changed her.

Misery was not the person she once knew.

So she kept the future from her. Misery's end would be the ultimate suffering...

One will die, one will sleep...and the breaker of the spell was not who Misery would think it would be.

Even after Misery left, keen on ideas on how to draw out Sadie in front of Alice and I, Hecate knew that was the worst she's ever done.

She vowed never to lend a helping hand to anyone again...good or bad.