She was born into madness, a great dark blanket wrapped around a volatile mind that could only squeeze closer and closer as the days dripped into years and death.
In her youth, she had known sanity as a contemptuous friend, one who flitted in and out of her life like a wild butterfly. It was something she could never really tame and harness for herself, only revel in the experience when it allowed her the dubious luxury. But more often than not it slipped away, leaving her trapped in vulnerability and madness's cruel grasp, twisting a delicate mind into something so much darker, so much crueler.
The woman knew she was evil. It was really only a matter of time before everyone else accepted that reality as well.
On her two legs the woman ran, bounding across the uneven lands of an unfamiliar forest as she tried to escape from the dark cloud that curled tighter across her mind. Visions of children, sable and gold and covered in crimson, blocked her footsteps and she ran through them as they burst apart at her feet in an explosion of color and death. Over and over she watched her children die at her feet and the dark Queen was unable to do anything, as she hadn't been able to do anything before.
She drew in air as she tried to feel alive again and tried to feel something besides this all consuming terror that seemed to possess her every motion. Golden eyes darted around in her own private panic as she moved through the dark night, canvasing terrain she'd never seen before as she tried to acquaint herself with these strange, bi-pedal lands. Linquilea, in the small recesses of her heart where the madness hadn't crept yet, missed the life she had before, when she was a simple girl who lived on four legs and nothing more.
But that life had been stolen from her by a pale boy who thought he should rule the world, a boy so consumed with his owl selfish jealousy that he could not see the beauty in new life, and instead ripped its throat and left it on the ground to die. Two children, innocent and beautiful, were food for the Earth far before their time, and their murderer lived somewhere in these lands.
She hadn't realized it until she stumbled across the intoxicating scent, but Linquilea soon stood before an injured doe. The leg was broken and the creature struggled valiantly to get away, but it collapsed in the face of a natural, dark predator. A weak thing, disgusting - it dishonored her presence. How dare it. Lips curled into a feral snarl as the creature crouched, sprung, and sunk her teeth into the flesh. The animal's screams turned into groans turned into a death rattle, and Linquilea found herself enormously unsatisfied. With a howl of rage she flung the useless beast away from her and golden eyes wheeled for a more satisfying target for her madness.
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