This isn't a fantasy world, with real witches and real magic. This is the real world, with an aging woman, never very pretty, never able to fit in. She wants to believe, though, in such magic. She reads books, watches movies, hears stories about people who drain the life essence from others. People who can make themselves pretty, make themselves smart or interesting, by sacrificing others who hold those traits.
She kills, guiltily, in an attempt to seal a pact with the devil, because her whole life she's been dreaming that she's the prettiest one.
She can't avoid the regret, though. This is the real world, and all of these deaths don't actually help her to become a better person. She has to live, by herself, nobody to confess to, so she writes these stories down, and she makes things that she hopes will help absolve her. She does these acts of contrition, but every time, she gets this feeling, and she needs the excitement and the rush and to feel alive, so she goes out and does it again, in a fit of irrational emotion.
This isn't a fantasy world, with real witches and real magic. This is the real world, with an aging woman, never very pretty, never able to fit in. She wants to believe, though, in such magic. She reads books, watches movies, hears stories about people who drain the life essence from others. People who can make themselves pretty, make themselves smart or interesting, by sacrificing others who hold those traits.
She kills, guiltily, in an attempt to seal a pact with the devil, because her whole life she's been dreaming that she's the prettiest one.
She can't avoid the regret, though. This is the real world, and all of these deaths don't actually help her to become a better person. She has to live, by herself, nobody to confess to, so she writes these stories down, and she makes things that she hopes will help absolve her. She does these acts of contrition, but every time, she gets this feeling, and she needs the excitement and the rush and to feel alive, so she goes out and does it again, in a fit of irrational emotion.