Title: Faded Emerald

Author: k4writer02

Rating: PG

Fandom: Tortall

Summary: Written for Goldenlake Malorie's Peak Prompt 1: Colour

Her eyes are no longer bright emerald, as they were in her youth. After a lifetime in a tower, she is sick and listless. Dying, while a canker consumes her from the inside out. She does the best she can to prepare for her visitor, without cosmetics or a mirror, considering she's on her deathbed.

That is the reason she's being permitted this luxury—this one last sight, to take with her to the Black God's realm.

The king's averts his sapphire eyes—wrinkled, but still vibrant—from her ruin.

"Look at me." She croaks, "Damn you." Her vision fades.