#hypnotic: forcenexus

[jedhans]

@forcenexus | “I want to liberate your truest self: the beast that prowls around your heart.”

Mayhaps a beast prowled around Seryn’s heart, pulling her strings like a master did its puppet. She had done her best to ignore the beast, pushing its existence down, down, down into the deepest, darkest depths of her chest cavity. Its dark, damned stain lingered there, ever-present, though, threatening to spread, to stray and travel the length of her form. All because her mother — the beautiful, beguiling Sera Mireya — had been born and raised as a member of the Mecrosa Order. She was supposed to live and breathe for its overlords, House Mecetti of Obulette, doing anything and everything in her power to ensure their survival.

She had . . . but only for a time. Because the Force ultimately presented her with a new path, leading her to Jedha, to Orion. The King had been broken, bleeding beyond repair due to how the Son had recently paid his beloved lady wife a visit, stealing away her strength and leaving her with no choice but to die, passing from this mortal realm onto the next. Sera seemingly breathed life back into him, and so, moons later, they had been wed, married in the eyes of gods and men.

Such did not change the fact that darkness and deception ran in their blood.

“Whyever would you want that?” she breathed, a twinge of anxiety rising beneath her skin. “It’s a horrid, hideous thing.”