A screech form the right, a bang to the left, my heart pounding as I halt my footsteps, time freezes around me as nothing happens.
Silence fills the room, as I am frozen, like a timeless statue.
The door swings open, crashes against the wall, in he walks. Daggers in hand, blood trickling off the edge, blood, staining his hands, clothes. Blood, filling the room with that sickly aroma as it comes to touch a sizzle on my tongue. My mind suddenly wakes up, daggers? On him? In our bed chamber? The worthless, dumb, wretched man! How dare he return here with blood on him and the daggers! Any brave man would know this, I of course, would of done it myself, if Duncan hadn't looked so much like my father, or if I had been unsexed like I had asked the immortal spirits. Spitting at him, I tell him this. He isn't even worth a name. Just him, he and it. I am left disgraced by his behaviour, so here I am, left to pick up the pieces.
Showing him what a real man is like, I reluctantly snatch the daggers and snap at him to get washed, changed and dried, ridding of the stains. Motionlessly, tiptoeing to Duncan's bedchamber, I am startled at the state that lies before me. Blood, sprawled everywhere, not a thing is left clean. I thought I was alone, with a body, oh no. A whimper. Without thinking I raise the daggers and…
Breathless, I sprint back, through the hallway, but I'm being followed. I know it, I can sense it.
Guilt hangs round my shoulders, but with