"I never wanted this,"
or so they say. These words -- these thoughts -- never left my mouth.
Though I live and die with regrets, and though I weep over things done and left undone-
I cannot say I did not want this.

My Lady of Wraiths,
my lady.

You were my purpose, found.
It was, in my service to you, where I found fulfilment.
And as I lay now, broken and bled before your throne,
I drink of this life's fleeting fetters.

To dine with you;
I drink to die,
and I drink tonight.



"I will not disappoint you,"
That was the pledge to you, made by one young witchling.
I promised to succeed where the others failed you.
I promised -
I made so many promises.

I promised my father,
I promised my sisters,
and all those I said I loved.

It's hard to deny, after all I've done,
that I was born a liar.


And I've come to understand it, in this last evening.
I've made peace with the viper in the mirror,
and I've made peace with the few I had left.

I thank you, my Lady of Wraiths,
as I rest within thy realm evermore.

"..."


"We are one in the same, now,"
though we were always one.

I was a wretched little thing, wasn't I?
Lying through my teeth, acting the fool.

Acting.

It's hard to tell, now, where the act began and where it ended.
Was it when I abandoned my child?
Left my husband?
Disappeared?

Was it when I cried in her arms,
the night I woke with demon's blood?
Was it when--

There's no point in keeping track now.
I turned my friends into enemies,
taught my family how to hate me-

and as my body lay behind,
I am without an ounce of guilt.

I'd do it again.
If not for my lady,
then for me.



I know will serve again,
as Veyzith served us both.
I will do the same.

If not as Sabrina,
then as Taleya.

But until then, I close my eyes.

I drink deep of the cold wind
and of the silvered dreams,
and I rest within thy realm.

"Evermore."


I am not full of disgust.
I am not full of hatred.
I dream of tomorrow night's sky.
I lay at peace, adrift in this wantless slumber.
And as life's last fetters slip away, I realize;
The World Is Still Beautiful