Green Eye

= Green Eye = Posted by  Largehobbit

Posted: Mar 9, 2018, 12:30am

- August 18th, Spink's Manor, Highholm, Evening -

Edward sat watching her through the doorway. Their eyes had met for but the briefest of moments as he had been making his way to this vantage point and his heart still lurched in his chest from that fleeting contact. The hatred in her glance was irrelevant, exciting even. "Stella." he breathed the name, savouring its flavour on his lips.

He glared at the simpering fop Westley. The fool was all over her and she could not see him for what he was. A fake, a fraud, like all the rest of them. She laughed at his whit but Edward knew it to be empty, void of substance. With his books and plays filled with heresy and worse. He made a mental note to visit the academy. It wouldn't take much, a hint here an accusation there and Mr Corbet would be a guest in his little black room.

Edwards face twitched as he looked on, and his bad leg began to shake. His medication was wearing off. It was happening quicker and quicker these days he would need to find a more potent solution and soon. He fumbled in his jacket for a small pot of pills and almost dropped them as he undid the cap. Quickly he tapped out three of the small white tablets into his hand and threw them into his mouth. He took a first sip of his drink then to wash them down.

Looking up he saw Charlotte Good standing with the pair now. He mentally blanked her out, she was a nobody. Next to Stella she was a faded ruin of a woman drowning in the shadow of true beauty and elegance. Little wonder she could not keep her man satisfied.

Edward stiffened then as David the wife beater strode up to the small group, destroying their enjoyment with his usual lack of charm. He was a mannerless dog and Edward would kill him one day. A slow death he decided. He wondered absently of Stella would like to watch...

The moments passed by and he pulled his eye and mind away from distraction as he waited for the promised speech to begin.