The Storybook

by mwhite4264

Astoria Greengrass violates a direct order from the Dark Lord himself, and is sentenced to death for her crimes. Draco Malfoy is named to be her executioner, the man she has been searching for for years. Armed with an idea from a well-loved story and a task given to her by a man long dead, she must make a bid for her life.

8. Chapter Seven

Astoria was grinning. She knows that once he puts off killing her for one night, it will make it all the more easier to do it the next night, and all the more harder to kill her tomorrow. He turns and leaves, locking the door behind him. Astoria does not go to sleep, although she is tired. She has to remember the stories. She recites them, before drifting off to sleep.