Blood for Seed
E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100
Challenge word: include a metaphor
Warnings: None, unless you haven't watched Sam and Ruby at the beginning of Season 4 yet.
Black smoke dropped to the floor like it was made of lead instead of whatever constituted demon-essence. A twist of the hand, and darkness dissolved in a flurry of sparks.
Ruby watched her protégé in silent satisfaction, her secret smile never reaching her lips.
Rage was molten magma mantled around his very core, a slow heated mass of pain and anger. Pressure was building beneath the surface, waiting for the tiniest weakness, the smallest crack in his façade of control.
Nurtured just right, when he eventually erupted, Sam Winchester would become the destroyer of worlds, burning everything in his path.
But now, for us, wild Winter, and the need
Of sowings for new Spring, and blood for seed.
Wilfred Owen