Madness

“Why have you brought me here?” she turned to him after he brought her to the hilltop this night.

“To show you this,” sweeping his arm and stepping aside to show a view of the town below.

The town was ablaze, the flames rising high into the night sky.

“W-what have you done?” the shock clearly heard in her voice, “Tell me! Why?”

“Vengeance,” looking at her out of the corner of her eye, “I did this all for you.”

Taking a step back, she turned to face him, “Have you gone completely mad?!”

“Now why do you say such hurtful things?” he smiled, facing her, turning his back upon the inferno, “It was THEY who hurt you, it was THEY who left you to your fate, not caring whether you lived or died, THEY deserved this. THEY deserved this fate that I bestowed upon them!”

“I never asked this of you! I never asked you to do anything!”

“I know…” the fires behind him only served to make his smile appear sinister, “but that does not mean I should stand by and do nothing, especially when it was within my power to do so.”