If you had the chance, would you live forever?
Moonlight peeked through the shadowed trees and set a slight glow around that ridiculous turban as its owner trembled under my gaze.
"We have already had this conversation," I snarled, wondering how on earth this cowardly creature came to be in such a position, "And I refuse to have it again. Have you decided, Quirrell? My patience grows thin, and I will do everything in my power to stop you from whatever plans you have concocted to weasel yourself into the good graces of the Dark Lord."
"S-Severus, I cannot e-e-express how flattered I am that you f-f-f-feel I could be behind such an i-i-impressive p-p-plan. H-h-however..."
"I'm keeping an eye on you," I interrupted, staring him down with no difficulty. Something in his eyes I found disturbing, however, though I could not place what it was.
Even as I started to turn away from him, he managed to get out a single sentence without a stutter. "Haven't you ever wanted immortality, Severus?"
"No." I didn't look back at him. "I have no fear of death, and when my time comes I will welcome the rest."
My robes swept the ground of the dark forest as I left him there, cowering in fear of his own mortality.
"We have already had this conversation," I snarled, wondering how on earth this cowardly creature came to be in such a position, "And I refuse to have it again. Have you decided, Quirrell? My patience grows thin, and I will do everything in my power to stop you from whatever plans you have concocted to weasel yourself into the good graces of the Dark Lord."
"S-Severus, I cannot e-e-express how flattered I am that you f-f-f-feel I could be behind such an i-i-impressive p-p-plan. H-h-however..."
"I'm keeping an eye on you," I interrupted, staring him down with no difficulty. Something in his eyes I found disturbing, however, though I could not place what it was.
Even as I started to turn away from him, he managed to get out a single sentence without a stutter. "Haven't you ever wanted immortality, Severus?"
"No." I didn't look back at him. "I have no fear of death, and when my time comes I will welcome the rest."
My robes swept the ground of the dark forest as I left him there, cowering in fear of his own mortality.