Thank you for sharing this story with us. I love the premise of this story and how quickly Tally captured the attention of Alder.
My favourite parts:
Because she knew where some of those faces ended. She knew who would die screaming, who would die brave, who would die fast enough to call it mercy and who would not get even that. She knew the smell of Camarilla labs, of burned work, of blood on old floors. She knew the silence that came after a city of witches had been culled. She knew what it was to survive long enough to understand that survival could become its own punishment.
Poor Tally. What a heavy burden to carry. The idea that survival could become its own punishment speaks to unimaginable suffering.
And she would save Sarah Alder without ever again becoming foolish enough to love her.
I have absolutely ZERO faith in Tally achieving this goal. Talder is her destiny. Bless her attempts to think otherwise.
Could not be the girl who mistook being seen by Sarah Alder for being chosen by God. Could not build her heart into an altar and then act surprised when it became a place of sacrifice.
Apt. Brilliant!
Could not be the girl who mistook being seen by Sarah Alder for being chosen by God. Could not build her heart into an altar and then act surprised when it became a place of sacrifice.
I am so excited to see this being rewritten. It still blows my mind after all these years that Sarah would let herself be removed from power in such a way.
Failed to stay unnoticed. Failed to stay separate. Failed, worst of all, before the entire fort and directly in front of the one person she had sworn never to let near her heart again.
Thank you so much for this—I'm really glad those lines landed the way they were meant to.
We’re definitely going to see Tally’s devotion to Sarah, but also her anger and guilt for everything that passed between them. Before, Tally saw Alder’s power and nobility and built something almost sacred around it. Now she knows the rest too: how manipulative she can be, how little room she has for individual lives, how easily she lies, how absolute her arrogance can become. That knowledge doesn’t erase the devotion—it complicates it.
That’s really the shift I’m interested in. In the show, Tally moves from seeing Alder as a god to seeing her as a monster. Here, she knows from the start that she is both. And I think that makes their relationship more real, more dangerous and honestly more inevitable.
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