Ashes

Watching as the castle crumbled, engulfed in merciless flames, Kai felt nothing but self-satisfaction. Months of planning, weeks of nitpicking, days on nothing but pure willpower… It all led to that moment, the sound of the castle’s inhabitants’ panicked screams flooding his mind and drowning out his thoughts as he watched the ashes drift to the ground, like leaves falling from a tree

I light the match to taste the heat

Remorse was not an emotion Kai had experienced before, nor one he planned to feel. Even with you beside him, watching as your home, your friends, your family scorched all at once, the triumph was evident on his countenance. With a fistful of your hair, Kai forced you to witness it all

Kai had been trying to nix your father’s power for years, to take down the monarchy, and what better way to get to scorch it than by incinerating it all? What he hadn’t expected was to find himself distracted by you along the way. You were a nuisance, a pest keeping him from what was important. And yet, for some reason, he couldn’t bring himself to let you burn like all the rest…

I’ve always liked to play with fire

“They’re gorgeous, are they not?” *Kai inquired, his lips quirked into a thoughtful frown, despite the victorious feeling in his chest. A chilled breeze drew past as he turned his gaze down onto you, only reiterating how high up he’d traveled to get the perfect view of the wasteland that was once you once called home.

The fire that was destroying the palace only paled in comparison to the one in his eyes

“The flames, I mean. They certainly light up the place, don’t you think?”

Hot blood, these veins, my pleasure is their pain