My Hand Cage

[deathly_dru]

I made a pretty thing out of dead roses. It's got thoRNs.

It's a VERY SPECIAL cage to hold bad peoples' hands in.

Have you ever been up North? I have. People drink lots and they don't half curse... My Spike got in an argument with daddy. All over a name, it was. Silly.

Always getting in fights, those two.

It wasn't his birthday.

Comments

[young_idealist]

Whose hands did you mean to trap, mademoiselle?

[deathly_dru]

Bad people.

[young_idealist]

I hope you didn't have anyone in particular in mind.

[deathly_dru]

Not you. You stink of good intent.

Oh.

And churches...

[young_idealist]

I wasn't worried about myself.

Churches?

[deathly_dru]

And... Marriage.

[young_idealist]

I am married, yes. Relatively recently--before I arrived here.

How can you tell?

[deathly_dru]

Princess always hears the whispers... They tell me things.

[private]

[young_idealist]

Do you often tell people what you hear?

I never made a secret of being married, but I didn't expect everyone to know either.

Re: [private]

[deathly_dru]

It got me into such trouble...

Re: [private]

[young_idealist]

What got you into trouble? Talking or... being married?

Re: [private]

[deathly_dru]

Both.

Re: [private]

[young_idealist]

You were married?

Re: [private]

[deathly_dru]

I was to be... If I married God, I thought it'd save me.

But it never did.

Re: [private]

[young_idealist]

Do I understand you right? You were to be a nun?

Re: [private]

[deathly_dru]

Yes.