faeriesongs:

Ruin & Rising AU:

Alina had watched the Darkling’s breath still, felt his body cool. And yet so long after his death, darkness followed her.

Shadows pooled at her feet, clung to the walls around her. There was darkness where darkness had no business being, always in her periphery, toying with her.

It said: I am here. It said: Did you really think one gets to be so old without having died a few times? This is nothing. It said: I am coming for you.