Written for Azzie (Inkfire)'s first challenge for the Bellatrix Lestrange: The Dark Lord's Most Faithful forum birthday challenges.
Prompt: Write a drabble featuring Lucius Malfoy and a peacock.
100 words.
The Whited Sepulchre
"For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
Matthew 23:27
Every façade at Malfoy Manor is exactly that. White marble masks a morgue of morbid decay. Simple, seductive perfection entombs a world of quiet contamination.
Lucius Malfoy, in black, stands between white archways. From a wide window he sees the garden. Two albino peacocks strut proudly between weeping displays of wisteria. He studies their lithe forms, entranced by the way one bares its wings and attacks the other. White purity masking violence.
When his father gave him them on his twentieth birthday, he said that the birds would acquire the qualities of their master.
Lucius smiles, knowing his father was right.
Thoughts?