(A/N): Yes, it's true. You've reached the epilogue. Several thousand words later, you're here, reading the Beldam's Last Will and Testament.

Well, not really, but it's the last stuff from her POV.

EPILOGUE: TWO WORDS

So now it comes down to my final piece.

I like playing with my Narrator too much. She's in a different place now, watched by different people, and I am dictating this epilogue to her. The funny thing is that she knew what I would say here before she knew how the story would end. She's jumping back and forth between me and – the other person right now.

Maybe I'm happy, by the outcome I already knew about. But maybe I also know that... well, maybe sometime in the far future, it won't work out too well. Maybe I will fail.

But it will be a long time before that. I will make her - MY child - as miserable as I can, for the time being. Because she's mine. I can do what I want with her.

The day I received my fifth Showing was the happiest day in my long life.

Someone from her life was correct - I do hate her. Now, and then, when he had said it. But a child has to come running back to Mommy eventually. And then the child is punished.

My love is an illusion. I pretend to. I love them only in the fact that in the end they can be mine. And they will.

I know I don't have much time left with my Narrator.

But... I love getting the last words.

And the last words are:

I win.

(A/N): I'm sorry to have to spoil your happy ending and final statement, Beldam, but they're not quite the last words. No. That's for me.

Feel jealous. Yes. Your time will come again... someday. Tomorrow. Wait 24 hours or so. And a few hours more than that. Coraleyes is coming soon, but your role in it isn't coming THAT soon...

I'll kill you off soon enough.

Oh, but what's the point of that crazy dream? You're one of the loose ends that must be tied up. And it's a lot more fun to make the main character miserable than it is to make the villain, because the villain is always miserable in the end.

Speaking of audience, I also have to thank a few people for sticking by me through this whole fancy fiasco.

I'd like to thank, in no particular order:

Marquis Carabas for giving support,

Sonosublime for *FacebookCopyrightMove*ing this (AKA: Liking),

for being a first subscriber,

My Brain, for inspiring me with ideas for two separate tales and finding a way to bind them together,

And, finally, Anyone Who Reads This In The Future, because you're just epic. XD