Evan's Perspective
After getting a lot of weird ingredients from the witch's store room, like acromantula hairs and pegasus feathers, they went to the outside of the manor and onto the stony, barren land outside. Dolleno got to work drawing circles, lines and stars in different colors of chalk. After that, he set down everything they took out from the house and oddly, none of the liquid ingredients moved out of the circle. It was like there was an invisible cup around it.
"Now, it says that you have to stand in the middle at midnight and do something." Dolleno said.
"Do what?" Evan asked.
"You'll find out." Dolleno said.
"Is this a setup?" Evan asked, backing away. "It is isn't it?"
"No it's not." Dolleno said. "I promise."
"Why should I trust you?"
"Because I saved your life."
"You could've just wanted me alive so you could do this." Evan said gesturing toward the circle
"I am not letting this opportunity slip away from me again!"
Dolleno's opened his mouth and venom shot from his fangs into Evan's eyes. Evan was in to much pain to fight, and he was partially blinded, when a tail grabbed his leg and dragged him into the house. Before he knew what was going on, he fell into a deep sleep.
Later That Day
When Evan woke up it was nighttime. He was in the middle of a glowing circle and he had an old kopis in his hand. Dolleno was coiled inches away from him in the circle.
"It's time." Dolleno said.
"What do you mean?" Evan asked.
"You see, I haven't been completely honest with you. This ceremony needs a sacrifice, somebody you care about has to die by your hand. Since your sister's not here I think that it should be me. Plus, I want to die. Gorgons live life loathing how ugly we are and how we wish we could just end our hideous lives but we can't, this is the only way I can die."
"How are you ugly?"
"My eyes. They make me only see that I'm hideous."
"But-"
"Thank you for trying to cheer me up but it's midnight soon and you need to do this for Karey."
"Kasey."
"The point is, we could both benefeit from this."
"But-"
"Please? Please do it."
". . . . . . . . . . .Fine. How?"
"Just stab me in the heart.
Evan raised the kopis and stabbed Dolleno in his heart. The black blood ran down his chest and wrapped around the circle Evan was standing in. The corpse disappeared and after several minutes and lots of flashes of glowing light, Evan felt a seering pain in his chest. The circle faded away and a mirror was on the ground. Evan picked up the mirror and looked into it. His light brown hair was black and his eyes had turned black, not dark brown, but a color like the blood that had pooled around him when he killed Dolleno. He thought of what he just did and when he looked up, he was on all fours and had the feral need to kill anything that stood in his way.
