Ascending to Darkness. This is a short story fantasy story about a young elf who goes into the world seeking magic just to be corrupted by evil lure of power.

Ascending to Darkness:
As I look now upon the road that I have traveled I see clearly what I set out to become. If only I can remember how sorrow and happiness feels to experience my life, if I can call it thus, would be a heaven compared to this dreaded hell I suffer now. But nay, it is not so, my path has changed its course and from this course I will not stray. Not as I did before.
The time of my coming to this world is now long past, the happiness that once was in living and life itself filled me. I was a young elf, in elven years, who was in awe of the power of the unknown and unsee…