A/N: Hey y'all! Some angsty Nagini for you.
Word Count: 396
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Nagini let her dark hair spill over her shoulders as she hunched over the fireplace. Her black eyes searched through the ashes, looking for—there.
Nagini reached into the fireplace and gently lifted the ashwinder from its nest. It reared up at first, before it sensed a kindred spirit in her; that was the one good thing about her curse, her affinity with snakes. Nagini hummed softly to the serpent, coaxing it into curling around her arm. She was careful to soothe it into a state of near slumber, then slowly removed her wand from her sleeve.
There were three glowing eggs in the midst of the ashes, and though Nagini hated to freeze them, she knew they would burn her apartment building down if she wasn't careful. With a simple charm, she froze the eggs, ignoring the soft hiss of the Ashwinder. Nagini scooped up the eggs and stood.
The grey snake slithered around her neck, tightening slightly around her throat. Nagini paid the creature no mind. She shivered as she crossed the apartment, the tile freezing against her bare feet. Once she reached her bedroom, Nagini Apparated, the sound muffled by the Silencing Charms she'd put in place.
When Nagini opened her eyes once more, she was in a grassy field. Still barefoot and dressed in only a thin nightgown, she made her way through the dirt. Her feet ached against the icy ground.
Nagini knelt after a few minutes of walking and placed the eggs, which were beginning to cool alarmingly, in a small, abandoned burrow. She released the charm on them and unwound the Ashwinder from around her neck, where it immediately slithered to its children.
Nagini sat back on her heels, letting the wind whip her hair. She let her mind wander, as it so often did these days, of the inevitable future. Of the day when he body—her very soul—would morph into something else entirely.
She wondered if she would lose her mind to it, as well.
But there was no point in dreading what was to come, she tried to reason with herself. She could only take this one day at a time.
Nagini got to her feet, the night silent around her. All Nagini could hear was the sound of her own breathing. She closed her eyes and Apparated back to her empty apartment, knowing her days were numbered.