Um. Yeah. So...when the prompt is "seven deadly sins" you get something like this.

To my credit, I mentioned six (wrath, envy, sloth, greed, pride, and gluttony), but the last one...meh. I didn't mention it because I honestly couldn't figure out how to mention it without going totally dark and I wasn't in the mood for it. I did the best I could, so hopefully that's enough :D


They were just words on a page, Marik decided.

"Seven Deadly Sins"? How could they deadly, the seven year old wondered with a frown. He'd found the small snippet of a scroll in their small library and out of curiosity he'd started to read it, but now he was finished and he found he didn't understand what the author meant.

Whoever had written it couldn't be literal about them, because everything the scroll was describing were things that he and his family did every day; if their actions were truly deadly they'd all be…well, dead.

True, Isis could be a bit lazy and forget to hide those outside books that Mother had smuggled in long ago; she'd done that once, and Father had actually hit her and got real mad about it. And yes, Marik could see a hint of envy in Rishid's eyes whenever Father proudly compared him to "his true son", as he called Marik. But those actions weren't deadly.

There may have been a bit of greed last night involved in his part when he took the last of the kushari for himself and forgot to leave some for Isis, but wasn't everyone like that when it came to their favorite food? And when Rishid had been beaten badly when that cobra had almost bitten Marik a couple weeks ago…yes, Father had been angry and his actions certainly fit the description of wrath, but still. He hadn't killed Rishid, so that didn't necessarily mean that wrath was a deadly sin.

But all of those things didn't matter.

Because they were just words on a scroll…right?