Title: The Serpent Author: gingertart Word Count: 100 Rating(s): G Warnings: angst Challenge: 47 Lion A/N: Sequel to The Lion
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Maimed, discarded and cursed by both the Light and the Dark, he slithered from the battlefield unseen. His scars form a knotted web, hidden tracery of debts paid and losses incurred, a reptilian skin that will only be cast when his soul walks free.
Now he creeps the edge of the Wizarding world performing a squib’s wandless tasks. He labels jars in the apothecary’s shop in Knockturn Alley, cleans cauldrons for a pittance and smothers his pride under a second-hand robe. Gaunt and famished, his blood runs cool but he hoards his venom like a wounded asp awaiting his Cleopatra.