I am Become Death

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Author: kleinefee92
Title: I am Become Death
Rating: PG-13 (I think)
Pairing: N/A
Characters: Freya
Summary: Why should they enjoy what she cannot?
Warnings: Implied character death
Word Count: 131
Prompt:Skin
Author's Notes: Freya can't really be as innocent and untouched by her curse as she seems in the show, can she? Nah. Didn't think so. I don't remember where I've heard the quote the title comes from. Gluten-free boysenberry thumbprint cookies for whoever recognizes it and lets me know?

Edit: I figured out (with the help of my friendly neighborhood search engine) where I first heard the quote. In an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah quotes J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was actually quoting the Bhagavad-Gita.

I am Become Death



Every night, she sheds her own form for one from some devil’s phantasmagoric fantasies.

Every day, she covets the silky smoothness of her complexion, and desires nothing more than to bask in its pristine innocence always.

Over time, she believes her jealousy of those not plagued by her wretched affliction, those her demonic form stalks in the shadows, seeps through and twists what once was a hunt into a malicious mawling.

Sniffing delicately, her enhanced senses detect the arrival of night, and while one part of her, the sane, compassionate part, recoils in fear and revulsion, the other coils, ready to spring, to slice, to shred.

If she cannot hold onto her beauty, then neither can they.

Snap, scream, snarl.

The moon bids her good hunting.

Gladly, she hastens to oblige.

Comments

[kathyh]

Wow! That's a really interesting look at Freya. Beautiful in both the writing and the character exploration.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!