PART 1
Lilli grabbed at Adder's legs.
"Please… Please spare me. I'll do better! I'll never leave your side."
Adder crouched low, and brought himself face to face with her. With malice and hate dripping on every word, he said "It's too late."
He kicked Lilli's face with his boot, making her fall backwards a few stairs. Then he stepped closer again slowly, sword at the ready.
He raised it, poised to strike.
Lilli looked around, considering running. But the guards looked very ready to cut her down in a flash if she even attempted.
So she would try one last thing. She dug some words up from inside her heart, words she hadn't spoken in a long time, since all she had done was wake up, kill some of the Prince's enemies, then slept and repeated, day in and day out for almost ten long years.
"I love you."
Adder stopped suddenly, stunned. He looked to consider her words for a moment. He looked away, his face hidden from view.
"Did it work?" Lilli thought, raising her head a bit.
The blade sung through the air, hitting her square in the back of the neck, then slicing through the flesh and bone, severing her head from her body.
She was killed in an instant. Yet the second the blade hit, Lilli could've sworn she saw something. Tears welling from his eyes.