"Stupefy!" she screamed at the red-haired Horcrux. The spell only managed to fly her spade away from her hand. "Crucio!" out flew the wand. "Kill the leader!" Cedany yelled at Cearl, feeling sorry for saying that, as two full-grown men made their way towards her.

Cearl made some faint interjections as the DE turn around to face her, and she was not nearly ready to face him yet.she was just sneaking, without much of a plan.
"Hello.." she smiled at him awkwardly, than took a nearby long candlestick, and pointed it at the De, but didn't have the courage to attak first, which proved later to be a regretable mistake....
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Th ered haired, now deprived of her sward, looked with even more fury at Cedany, her teeth scratching. With hr wand in the left hand, she jumped over Cedany, hitting her against the cround, and attempting to cheack her.

"No one escapes me, little one..you ar e as dead as I am..ore even worse..." she whispered with difficulty, her red hair entering Cedany's eyes, hindering her from seing .

"Kill her..." Cedany barely whimpered, the redhead De's hands strengthening their grip on her neck. She didn't know what happened to Cearl, she was usually the composed and reliable one, but at that time she looked to be at a loss for actions. Already weakened by the notion that several people or former people had died of her hands, Cedany could only hope someone else would join in the killings.

Not eager to confront the DE first, she whirled past him and stabbed the redhaired right through her heart, which was now sticking out, inches from Cedany's face. Cearl had seen the woman at the last moment, but not on account of Cedany's words...

She looked rather petrified. Her eyes had widened at the sight of her doing...but soon enogh she fell to the ground, to reveal that her astonishment was much rather due to a blow given by DE as she past him. Cearl fell to the ground, her eyes open. She had not heard what spell it was that brought her down.

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The redhaired made an awful sound as she passed, like a dying bird, and blood came out of her mouth and dirtied Cedany's clothes. Then her eyes closed and her skin seemed wrinkled and ugly.

Unable to even follow the rapid succession of what was going on there, Cedany shivered as she felt the redhead woman's blood touch her skin. It made her want to vomit, but she knew alltowell there was no time for that. Springing to the left, and nearing Cearl, she got out her wand quickly enough to evade the other man, by shouting two spells at him. From the dim lighting of the room, she could see the leader's blue eyes pinned on them.
"It's now or never." she said to Cearl, though not sure if she was entirely listening. "We have to kill the blonde one."

Cearl pulled herself together, still not rally knowledgeble about what was going on around her. She nodded, then turned to face the DE. She looked deep into his sickening eyes, beautiful and cold. She let her mind submerge, aware, at some level, that she might never come out of that maze again.

And as she entered his mind, darkness covered her from all places. There was no image for her to see, no light, no colour. And yet, his mind was no closed for her. She decided it was time to take action, efore he could wake up from wherever he was hiding and hit her full power. She sent him images created by herself..of him gaining power..the world..everything...everyone bowing..herself included...then she started whisperin, as not to distur the silence she had met. She was telling him all that he wanted to hear...she was telling him she herself was honoured to serve him, and would die for him...she was swering allegiance...she was offering to make an unbreakable vow. And at that point, the darkness around her exploded into a bright fire that blined her in her mind, and she started screaming in pain. The DE was standing right in fron of her, in his mind, squishing her hand with his own, his eyes painfully braking into her own frail mind. He was making her swear, as her tears ran down her cheecks, desperate and bitter. "I..."

Cedany watched the developing scene, eyes ghastly. What was she doing? Then it struck her. He was entering his mind. She was impressed, but didn't let herself be carried away. If she wanted all of this over, she had to be quick. The DE seemed to recover and turn the chess board to his own advantage. Cedany looked around for something-- anything; simple spells would not work against him. She already heard Cearl lose control and starting to mutter something inaudible.
Hoping for the best, Ced took the closest thing to hand - an almost burned out candle and, losing reason, stamped it in the DE's eye, causing a shrink of pain to burst from his mouth. She saw Cearl fall to the ground next to her, and get up, again. At least he had let her free.
The sight was awful. In the place where she had pushed the candle to his skin, a blackened, reddish hole appeared, despicable in sight. The man's hands quivered in the air, aiming for her neck, probably. Evading him with a jump sideways, she ran around him, and repeated the same gesture to the other eye. It appeared to have a strange effect to him. Their eyes... Cedany turned to the other girl, her face almost positive. Screaming the death spell, she watched the same raged body tremble and fall to the ground. She breathed heavily, eyeing her wand now, which seemed to emanate strange fumes.
"Can he be really dead?" her voice echoed in the now untamely silence.

Cearl was still dizzy from her experience inside the DE's mind.

"I...I think so..s"he said,getting closer to Cedany, but not to the body."Unless there is another Horcrux alive. In which case, we might be in deep trouble..." Cearl look around, but she didn't seem topercieve anything.

"Is tehre any left?' she finally asked, and went to the De to push him withher leg, his awful face now staring at them, eyeless.

"Incendio!" she said tothe body, which burst into flamesin an instant, as if were made out of paper or dried wood.

"I hope not." Cedany sighed, relief springing from her at last. "I..I.. hurt many if them. And the others must have killed the rest." she said, looking at her colleague almost tear-eyed. She found it unbelievable that it could be over.. this scornful assignment that had basically finished them off, as well as their hopes. Letting her body fall to a heap on the ground, she lay there, for a while, staring at the void in front of her.
"I can't believe... can it be over?" the voice faded away, rounding off as a smoke circle.

Cearl went and hugged her, her eyes full of tears.

"I hope it is..I hope so..." and for teh first time in her life, she felt she hated magic, she hated blood, and peole's eyes...

"Let's just get away from all of this." she nodded towards the dead bodies, the fading lights, the burnt candles. "I just want to feel the outside air again..." her voice was low and soft, almost a murmur. Resting with one hand around the other girl's neck, she sustained herself, helping Cearl up as well, and started to trudge towards the exit.

From behind, you couldn't have guessed they were too very young ladies. You could easily see a white strand of hair in the candle's light, which Cearlwasn't aware of.
She smiled, looking at Cedany 's torn clothes.Without a word, they motioned to the exit, leaving behind everyone, everything...Leaving behind themeslves.

The freshairof the still early morning could not cool teh fire within them. They had killed. They had mutilated. They were no longer innocent young ladies...

"What are we now? What is it that awaits us, once we return?" Cearl asked, loking at Cedany with a faint smile, like the one a dieing person has, when looking back on everything.

"I don't know. I don't have the answers." Cedany said, as the light outside vanished the darkness within.
"Let's just get back to our castle. We'll take it from there... one small step at a time." she linked her arm with Cearl's and they trotted away, the wind blowing through their strands, the panorama still and unchanged, as if nothing happened there, and nor would it ever.