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“They’re going to butcher me,” she murmurs. Her thumb traces a circle over the knuckle of your pointer finger, again. She slides a nail under the edges of a misshapen scab, toying with its lacy frill of dead skin.
“He’ll eat anything.”
“Oh?” She looks up at you, amused. “And you’ll let him?” Her nail works its way deeper in, and with a pinch, the scab falls away to a dot of bright blood. “You’re not interested in a taste?”
Quanxi is the end, executioner, and eater.
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Pingtsi, Tsugihagi, Cosmo, Long. You think of the press of their cool skins on yours, the way they would sun themselves on your body heat, and focus on where the edges of your fingers and palm are turning white.
The memory begins to bleed out its warmth.
She crouches down to look you in the eye, and tilts her head. “There’s no use in resisting. Chivalrous as you are, Quanxi, you’ve always been too much of a realist.”
Denji declines the trip to Enoshima. Makima has to make other plans.
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"I'm Six."
"I hope not.”
The seated man peels off a long strip of abraded skin. Quietly, he repeats himself. "Not 'boy.' My name is Six."
"Really?” The grin curls to one side, sharper still. “Then I'm Number One. Or, I like Four—my lucky number. You understand. And you're outranked, wickie, so you'll be 'boy,' and this"—he points to himself—"will be 'sir' to you."
For as long as anyone can remember, the lighthouse has had a keeper. And sometimes, that keeper has an assistant—a fresh face and new blood arrives.
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"The kindest of my siblings, but he was so eager to please Father. He was easily manipulated, dragged into Father and Luther’s little games—and those two simply let him die."
All in all, a succinct two-sentence summation of his sixteen years. A version of the truth in her words, except—except that "those two simply let him”—Ben Hargreeves—"die."
Instinctively, something about that feels wrong.
(on endings, personal and apocalyptic. things fall apart. the center cannot hold.)
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in the tarot, the hanged man is the card that suggests ultimate surrender, sacrifice, or being suspended in time. it depicts pittura infamante, a man being hung upside-down by one ankle—the shameful image of a traitor being punished.
fabian aramais seacaster dreams of the biggest sacrifice he didn't make. the betrayal he made instead.