eighteen ✗

[gungoddess]

[recorded; her voice is surprisingly quiet, but that's probably just because she's tired because it's really late at night when she is posting this]So late

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[atwistedfancy]

I'm afraid the only world I could speak of is the same that you know -- but I may have a few stories.

[gungoddess]

I'm liii~stening.

[atwistedfancy]

[a few thoughtful pen taps]

Have you any preferences?

[gungoddess]

Whatever you've got is good enough, darling.

[atwistedfancy]

A widower comes to mind -- a widower with a son. He remarries, and his new wife has a daughter. This wife is determined that her daughter shall inherit the widower's riches, not his son. She arranges this by tempting the boy to reach into a basket for an apple, and then closing the lid on his neck. A sharp lid, it would seem, as this decapitates him. His body is then chopped to pieces, baked into a pie, and fed to his father.

[gungoddess]

Why's the kid sticking his head in baskets anyway? Unless lady's got his arms hacked off too, which kinda makes sense.

[atwistedfancy]

--a good question. I suppose it was a deep basket.

[gungoddess]

Maybe.
What other horrifying tales from the abyss you got?

[atwistedfancy]

I don't suppose you've heard the one of the mermaid girl who drinks a potion to make it feel as though she's walking on glass, to be on land?

[gungoddess]

Don't know much about mermaidian legends, no.

[atwistedfancy]

The mermaid sees a man ashore that she falls in love with at first sight, as such creatures are wont to, and goes to the sea witch for a potion to give her legs. The side effect, as I mentioned, is that it feels as though she's walking on glass at all times. She meets the man, he begins to return her feelings. She dances for him, although it causes her great pain. The man meets the priestess of a temple, and falls in love with her instead. The man and the priestess are married. The mermaid flings herself from a cliff and dissolves into sea foam.

[gungoddess]

Changed the tune to heartbreaking now, huh?

[atwistedfancy]

If that's how you choose to take it. I see it more as a tale of foolishness coming by its just desserts.

[gungoddess]

Ffft, it's silly to show the love o' your life that they're the love o' your life?

[atwistedfancy]

I would say it is, if such results in your own death.

[gungoddess]

People kill and die for love all the time. Weird as hell phenomena though, so maybe I get your point, sugar. A little.