Beauty, G (#2)

[girlcalledsun]

Title:Beauty
Author:Girlcalledsun
Rating:G
Summary:Response to drabble prompt #2 - hauntings. She tried to see the past in her face.


Her West facing tower only caught the sun in the evenings.

She used the light to study her face in the small mirror of polished steel, turning her neck this way and that as she studied the ruin of her face. Age and confinement had not been kind. Her skin was pale and papery, draped over her skull: she hardly recognised herself. Sometimes her former beauty would haunt her reflection, if she arched her eyebrow so, or smiled in that predatory way.

When she couldn’t see that ghost of her younger self, Delia felt like she would rather be dead.

[rainstormamaya]

So very creepy, and so very Delia. I love the idea of her sitting up there in her tower, looking for the remnants of her pretty face. (Well, that sounded more vindictive than I meant!)

[Lisa]

Hee-hee. And people say the death penalty is more cruel than life imprisonment....

[samantha]

Wow, I loved it. Very nice.

[k4writer02]

I can't decide which of us was crueler to Delia in our prison fics about her--you for giving her a mirror to see her decay, or me for not giving her a mirror so she could get ready for her visitor.

Seriously though, this was a good look at just how bored Delia probably gets up in that tower.

[Lindsay]

Oh, I like this. It must kill someone who was as vain as her to be withering away like that.

[ubiquitous]

I liked this. Great drabble!

[Imogen]

Oh, poor Delia. This is very sad. Especially as, outside of fanfic, everyone forgets her after Song of the Lioness.