Tarot Claim: Strength
Title: Blame
Fandom: LHOTP
Pairing: Carolne/Harriet
Author: bast2
Rating: PG
Words: 104
Harriet's POV
If inverted, the Querant is in danger of losing control to impulses and desires. Pride and unwarranted anger are also often associated with the inverted card.
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Hours after the attack you are still pale and trembling. You lay stretched out like a sacrifice upon the bed.
Blame you? Of course I don't blame you. The man was an animal; and yet, when I touch you, I find I am not quite gentle.
"You do blame me," you whisper.
"No, but I want...to bite you."
You gasp and turn away. Your bedgown is so old and soft, so easy to rip. I catch your hip with my teeth and cling there.
You lay still and unresisting and let me learn what else besides tenderness my love may be made of....