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prompt six | D E M O N S be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the best thing about you. ( friedrich nietzsche )

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[ Here is the worst part about that lie: he believes it. He believes, through and through, that there is nothing that could keep the two of them apart, that they could truly be happy. He believes it to the point that it fills up his entire body with hope, and the smile he wears is bright and simple and happy. ]

Yes, yes, I could. I do.

[ As much as he wants to believe in his own capacity to change and his own capacity to rule his actions, no, he does not deserve her faith. He never did. Even in his retribution for her death, he will be ugly, wheedling each person who had laid hands upon her closer and closer to their deaths as painfully as possible over as prolonged a period of time. (You will know how she suffered — how I suffer. And by the time I am finished with you, Vermillion's word will hold no capital in this world. By the time I am finished with you, you will wish you had never been born. I will carve away everything that you have — your family, your friends, your loved ones. I am Red. My word is law. And I will show you what a Duke truly is.)

But for now, the monster is cowed, shut away by the brilliance (found too late) of his love for her. ]