A/N: An extract from the Chapter I'll upload this weekend. Enjoy ;)!
"Toffee..."
The lizard lifted his head up slightly, just enough for Moon to see the daggers in his eyes, their sharp tips aimed directly at her.
"You don't have the right to call me that; not anymore..."
Moon frowned shamefully and was about to exit the chamber when Toffee decided to bury the bodkin of hatred further into her heart.
"How does it feel, hmm? How does it feel to be a deceiver and murderer?"
"I'm not a murde-"
"Liar!" his voice boomed throughout the chamber. Moon stood frozen in place, her back turned to him. Two guardsmen came rushing around the corner of the corridor and asked the Queen if something had happened. Moon told them that she had everything under control and dismissed them. Once the men were gone, she turned around to face Toffee. The hatred and resentment in his eyes burned like the fires of a thousand suns.
Moon spoke up, her voice firm and composed.
"What happened back then is a thing of the past. I have been trying to make amends for my actions. I-"
"Have been spewing lies and running away like the coward you really are!" Toffee cut in, his voice low and hoarse, filled with hate and anger.
Moon had no response.
She knew he was right.
But not entirely.
"I've changed, Toffee. I am no longer the same person I was thirteen years ago."
Toffee merely laughed at her statement, and replied, "So you claim. But you're still every bit of a liar and a deceiver as you were back then!"
Toffee walked over to the steel bars of his prison cell to get as close to her as possible, but the distance between them remained significant, Moon even backing away a bit to ensure that she was out of his tail's reach.
Toffee chuckled grimly.
"Are you scared of me, Moon? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't I, a monster, be cowering before you? The self-proclaimed purifier of Mewni?"
"You know as well as I do that I had no choice!" Moon stomped her foot angrily and glared at the lizard. "I have been doing everything in my power to right the wrongs and erase my past!"
Toffee smirked maleficently and pushed the tip of his long head in between the steel bars, then said, "Genocide will forever taint your name, Queen Moon."
Moon's eyes grew wide. His words stunned her into submission and she fell silent, staring at him, wide-eyed.
"Your past and your fate are both sealed. There is no fleeing from either of them."
Toffee's voice was calm, eerily so. The smirk that accompanied his words was sly and cocky. He knew he had the Mewman Queen in his grasp, knew that his words were eating her from the inside, devouring her iron resolve.
