A black snake has haunted me for a hundred years because I have an ageless heart.
He says my mother destroyed his golden body and set a great fire that burned an entire nest of white snakes who had gained spiritual awareness. She deserved to die.
He brought disaster upon me. To stay alive, I let others do as they pleased with me. He forced me to marry him and used me as a scapegoat. They stripped the bones from my body and gouged out my heart. When it was finally pulled free, it was covered in countless eyes, large and small.
The man spat blood and collapsed to the ground. The heart was riddled with holes, and his blood-red eyes reflected my bloodied chest.
"Is it only when you've lost this heart that you can spare even a little love for me...?"
