Velvet Cataclysm [SSC8 Sample Challenge]

[PROLOGUE] Curtains fall, not with grace, but with disdain. Dust dances upon broken breath... [ACT I] We waltzed on floors stitched from old regrets, You wore decay like a crown of frost. My hands were ink, yours pages unread, We whispered truth that the daylight lost. [ARIA] Oh, let them come with silver tongues and hollow flags, Their crowns will crack beneath the shame they sold. No throne was ever built on ashes pure, Yet we were thorns that dared to hold. [INTERLUDE] [ACT II] Call them gods, call them dust-fed kings, I carved my name on the rust of their rings. In the theatre of cruelty, we were actors and stage— Bleeding applause in a velvet cage. [INFERNAL WALTZ] She spun with knives beneath her dress, I drank each lie from her honeyless lips. He laughed like a grave still echoing sin, Our love—a toast in apocalypse. [FINALÉ] Raise the red from beneath the snow, Let crows compose what angels fear to know. We are not ruins—we’re cathedrals cracked, Built from shadows that never looked back. So dance with me through the fire’s hymn, Let the final note begin.