Deceit of the Damned

and such, suddenly an old, wrinkled hand grabbed hold of Jennifer's forearm, making her jump. She
looked down to find a hooded old woman gripping tightly onto her “You…” the old woman croaked out
“What did...you do to me?” Jennifer looked around to find a few faces looking at her, nervously she
removed the woman's hand from her forearm before frowning at her
“I think you have the wrong person, ma’am...Please don’t touch me.” Jennifer then continued to walk on,
looking over her shoulder for a second to see the old woman slowly disappearing between the crowd,
before she looked onwards yet again. Shaking her head, she let out a breath of relief, finally getting away
from the strange woman. Who walks up on people like that? Jennifer soon turned the corner of one of the
stalls, only to stop dead in her tracks as she saw the hooded, old woman standing by the nearest wall,
staring straight ahead at Jennifer. Looking around frantically, Jennifer tried to see anyone else was staring
at her like last time, thankfully...they were not. Jennifer quickly walked up to the woman, glaring down at
her as the woman stood there with a hunchback, her walking stick in one hand, whilst her other hand was
balled up in a shaking fist, as if she was holding something - the shaking being because of her old age.
“What do you want, old lady?” Jennifer asked in a harsh tone
“You did this to me.” She croaked out again, looking up at Jennifer, eyes narrowing “You tricked me.”
“I don’t know what you’re on about.” Jennifer spat. She had no idea who this is and the old lady saying
she tricked her didn’t narrow it down either, she’s tricked a lot of people in her past. There’s a long list to
go through if she wanted to find out who this was herself “Who are you?”
“You don’t remember?” the old lady asked, her voice laced with venom “It was only two weeks ago...you
must have a bad memory for the powerful creature you are…”
“What?” Jennifer asked, frowning
“Marrissa.” was the name the old lady croaked out next and Jennifer’s eyes widened, before she stood up
straight, crossing her arms across her chest
“So I see you overindulged in your new powers.” Jennifer spoke with a teasing tone, which didn’t seem to
please Marrissa one bit
“You tricked me!” she raised her voice, maybe a little too much, as she began to cough.
“Oh my, you really have aged quickly, haven’t you?” Jennifer smirked “Maybe you will have learnt your
lesson.”
“Lesson?!” Marrissa looked at Jennifer in disbelief “What lesson?!”
“Greed is the evil of the universe. You asked for power, you got it...But you clearly didn’t use it right.”
Jennifer motioned towards Marrissa “Otherwise you wouldn’t be in this state. Let me ask…” Jennifer
leaned forward, her voice at a whisper “...Did you decide to take revenge on the people who judged you
for being less powerful?”