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The faint rustle of silk over stone,
duck egg blue hem slipping behind
a corner.
Tap, tap, tap.
Her flat shoes gently patted the
tile, slim hips swaying behind
a curtain of auburn hair.
Sigh.
The gruff reminder of his brutal
ruggedness. He stomped through
the corridor, gazing at the corner
the 'little bird' had glided behind.
"Hound!"
The boy king cried, wormy lips
curving into a slimy grin. A roll of
his eye, a grimace that made his scar
pucker.
Clank, scrape, thump.
The dying murmur of court, and then,
her.
Knelt before the inbred king, long legs
folded under her, blue silk pooling from
her skirts. Milky hands clasped before her,
as though a praying saint.
'Perfect,' he thought, reinstating the scowl
that tarnished his face.