Mina De Malfois, Chapter 7 (Hair Bracelets! Pseuicide! Mourning's Minions!)
By the end of the week, a ghastly new fad had sprung up. Fangirls, gripped by a belief that ‘any one of us could die at any moment,’ and unable to assuage that belief by a simple exchange of fanart and fanfic, were weaving bracelets out of their own hair and mailing these off to people they especially wanted to be remembered by.
‘Arc,’ I urged her, ‘I’d appreciate it if you could open all my incoming mail, and burn anything you find that looks like it might be made out of human hair, okay?’
No go. ‘Am forwarding all your mail immediately, unopened,’ she typed firmly, and I can’t say I blame her. The thought of the artifacts that might, even as we spoke, be laying there in the mail stack, filled one with a kind of dread.
Chapter Seven: Mina de Malfois and the House of Mourning, part one.
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