<p>I am drowning in darkness.&nbsp;<br />
My limbs submerged in inky tar, my lungs asphyxiated by the stench of death&#39;s hold.&nbsp;<br />
My eyes see nothing but black.&nbsp;<br />
Yet I see him.&nbsp;<br />
And I am not scared.&nbsp;<br />
I should be.</p><p>Don&#39;t look into my eyes, for my demons will eat you alive.&nbsp;<br />
My devil inside will feast on your soft flesh. His jagged teeth will tear the meat from your bones and drink the light from your soul.&nbsp;<br />
His scars will turn the innocent into sinful and drag you into his dark pit of hell.&nbsp;<br />
No light lives within this disfigured shell.&nbsp;<br />
I am a vessel for pain.&nbsp;<br />
Giving and receiving.&nbsp;<br />
It feeds me.&nbsp;<br />
It nourishes me.&nbsp;<br />
It holds me close like the arms of a lover and whispers to me in the twilight.</p><p>They say the devil was once an angel.&nbsp;<br />
There is no angel inside me.&nbsp;<br />
I do not seek repentance nor forgiveness.&nbsp;<br />
I do not crave things as weak as love.&nbsp;<br />
My desire for her is purely selfish and once my appetite is sated she will be unlucky to leave with her life.&nbsp;<br />
When she looks into my eyes, my demons will eat her alive.</p><p>*Book #2 of &#39;The Red Order&#39; series. Can be read as a standalone, but to understand the full storyline consider beginning the journey with Feyness*</p>