The Exorcism of Faeries (Morbid Realities, #1)

by J.L. Vampa

5th November 1993 He always reads standing in front of the shelf, one hand shoved in his pocket until it’s time to flip the page. It’s the first thing I noticed about him, while I was supposed to be studying. Instead, I watched him move from shelf to shelf and book to book. I had no idea at the time that I would one day meet him and he would change everything. We would change everything. -Excerpt from the diary of Ariatne Morrow, found in the wreckage at Ground Zero

Namely, the professor at the chalkboard addressing the small group of students and directing them to open their Biodiversity textbooks to Page 394.

Ok Snape

Outside, the campus was bustling with students, a hint of the approaching autumn on the wind, stirring the leaves that would soon lose their chlorophyll and show the world how beautiful it is to die.

“Sometimes fear cleanses the soul, Atta. It reminds us to look at the important things we took for granted while at peace.”

Fucking hell she was beautiful when she was angry. But not as beautiful as when she laughed.

If Sonder Murdoch was the dark lord, her soul was begging to be burned to ash.

“If you so much as look at her the wrong way, I’m the one who will make you wish you were dead. That’s who the fuck I am.”

Things would be different if people weren’t so fucking scared all the time but let their fear propel them instead of paralyse them.”

Sonder stared at her, her hair blowing in the wind and making her look like an apparition. A dark faerie queen. Jesus Christ. He was falling in love with her.

“Are you even listening to me?” he finally heard her say sharply. She popped a cube of cheese in her mouth. “Are you drunk?” “Only on you.” The words were out before he could stop them.

“How I thought I was destined to be alone, but it turns out I was starving all these years, waiting for you?”

“Do you know that I’m in love with you?” She smiled, the sleepy, blissful smile he knew was his. “I thought that might be the case, yeah.”

I want to drown in this love, darling,