A/N: Written for the Non-human characters boot camp, #013 – bloody hell
The Dark Creatures
10. Basilisk II
There was a basilisk loose, they would said.
They would hunt her.
Blind her.
Kill her.
She only lived to protect.
Rats were her only food
and unless she was ordered she wouldn't leave,
wouldn't subject that Medusa stare of hers
to the school.
It was a lonely life. A lonely meaningless life
because nobody would thank her;
they'd only reap her body
for the reward.
She knew that well
but still,
she couldn't just starve and die
or abandon the only purpose she knew.
It was a dark place, a dark future
with her blood at the end of the road
But still, that was all she had
to survive.