Swamp

"Ere I came upon your brother by the side of Andor’s lake
wounded and in the throes of fever’s dream,
and though his soul I was supposed to take
I could not send him down that fateful stream.
For his bright beauty I would have given many things
but your pure unkept soul tempts me greater still,
and so I did not cut your brother’s fragile strings
so that you may have that precious, final kill.”