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Post by Seek on Mar 27, 2014 0:22:16 GMT 10
Title: The Colour of Betrayal Rating: PG Word Count: 43 words Summary: There is a small room in their house which Beka never goes into. Notes: An AU which is set some time after Mastiff.
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In the small room: two cloth dolls, dirt-smudged, bound together with soaked-scarlet threads; silk (red for blood, red for betrayal) slips around two tiny chips of pale stone, cold blue in the Gift-light--he makes the final knot and neatly ties it off.
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Post by wordy on Mar 27, 2014 10:52:16 GMT 10
*gasps*
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Post by mistrali on Mar 27, 2014 11:31:13 GMT 10
I'm assuming the two figures are Tunstall and the prince? Because this is a perfect explanation of his... about-turn and his unsatisfying explanation for his treachery.
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Post by Seek on Mar 28, 2014 1:26:58 GMT 10
Em, I'm hoping that's a good gasp j/k mistrali: Actually, that could work too--I hadn't thought of it that way, but I had in mind the dolls being Beka and Farmer. The silk threads binding the 'pale eyes' of a doll is probably similar to how Roger managed to keep Alanna from being suspicious... Thanks, guys!
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Post by mistrali on Mar 28, 2014 12:56:07 GMT 10
Oh, I read the sentence as the silk being illuminated by a blue Gift (i.e. Farmer's), rather than the eyes being blue. So I thought that you had Farmer manipulating Tunstall into treachery. Which makes me sad, but...
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Post by Seek on Mar 28, 2014 18:04:44 GMT 10
Either way's fine, really. I just seem to be going for mild horror this OSW!
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