Title: Silence
Characters: Lady Grey, the Hero
Pairing: Implied Elvira/Dark Hero

The Hero watched as her ghost faded away, disintegrating into an ethereal mist that vanished into the air. He watched her, and then looked down at the base of the barrel she gestured towards with a plea to expose her sister. There was a note scrawled onto a piece of parchment lying next to the dead sister's skeletal hand. He picked it up gently, reading over the damning contents. If he turned it in, he could expose Lady Grey for the murder of her sister, Amanda—allowing her ghost to truly be at peace, for Rhodri to find closure, and for the prisoner to go free.

He stood there for a total of five minutes, considering it, when his sharpened senses picked up the soft sound of footfalls. A lady's, he assumed, and he turned around to ascend the stairs. Indeed, a Lady's—he looked up to find Lady Grey looking down on him. Her gaze fell to the letter and her face twisted into the ghost of a snarl.

"So now you know," she whispered, looking back to his face.

He nodded his head in confirmation, tightening his hold on the letter grasped in his hand. Amanda's last call, her last chance—when she was alive her sister, the one watching him carefully for his choice, silenced her—silenced her for power.

And depending on what he decided to do with the letter in his hands, Lady Grey would silence her again—this time to keep her power, to keep ruling over Bowerstone with her iron fist and keen eyes, bringing the hammer down on anyone who opposed her… just like her sister.

They called her a demon.

Then the Hero looked down at his own dark armor, covered here and there with dried blood and deadly spikes, and decided that it didn't matter. They called him a demon. He had massacred the people of Barrow Fields and silenced the guards who defended them. He ascended the stairs and gave her the letter, thinking about how beautiful she looked when she smirked like that.

Because Amanda was dead, and those people were dead; it didn't matter, they were silenced.

(A/N: It didn't exactly turn out the way I was thinking it would. I ended up changing the title because it didn't fit anymore, but I guess this is alright too.)