Coronet
Rating: T (feels like it should be more but I guess technically not)
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Characters: Jonah Magnus
Ao3 Link: archiveofourown.org/works/32770078“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks. Then, suddenly, time stopped for him. Yes: that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him. He stared at it. Its very horror made him stone.” -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
In the end, The Watcher’s Crown, while not the apotheosis that Jonah was hoping for, turns out to be…something else.
Written as part of @jonahmagnusweek for the prompt ‘Ritual’
Day 1 (Letters) - Day 2 (Manipulation) - Day 3 (Limits) - Day 4 (Bones/Possession)