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[kokanshu]

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[motherof_bone]

The man wants to marry you?

[ex_athenaie]

Yes.

[motherof_bone]

Being married is nice. Babies too.

[ex_athenaie]

I'm definitely too young for babies.

[motherof_bone]

I was sixteen.

[ex_athenaie]

Then that was your choice.

[everyblackdog]

Behave.

[motherof_bone]

Nice til it isn't, then you leave 'em for the dogs.

[everyblackdog]

Is this the sort of fun you get up to nowadays, Mary? Toying with little girls who don't know any better?

Such easy pray for the likes of you.

[motherof_bone]

[Her eyes widen.] No. I met an angel, Blackie.

[everyblackdog]

[ His eyes narrows. ]

Don't be ridiculous, Mary.

[motherof_bone]

I did. He burns me when I touch him.

[She holds out her hands quietly, red peeling fingertips and palms.]

[everyblackdog]

[ Even though it's been an age since he properly served as a hound of Hell, Blackie can see well enough the angel's touch still on her. He hisses openly, baring teeth, and quickly pushes her hands away. ]

You should know better.

[motherof_bone]

[She laughs at his reaction. Silly puppy, silly thing. Lucidity slips back from her expression, she hacks up a laugh that trembles in her.]

Ha-Satan reminded me, but he's just so funny, Blackie, he makes me laugh.

[everyblackdog]

[ He snarls at her, like a wounded animal, knowing that she'll bare teeth back at him. ]

Laugh? Out of madness or of contempt?

[motherof_bone]

[She can't help it, teeth grit and giggling, burned hands curled to her, feeling the ligaments of her throat, the thick weight of the devil's stain on her throat.]

Both, Blackie, both, he's such a pathetic thing, no father at all, but he watches, Blackie, he watches and he smiles.