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Submitted to Contest #235
Content warnings: infanticide, accidental suicide The last drops of the infant’s blood cling to the knife wound like slick glass beads. Bast gives the body a little shake to dislodge them; one lands in the goblet beneath, the other on Melidrei’s hand. She flinches though the blood is already beginning to cool, staring at the dark spot on her hand as if it’s a spider she’s afraid to spook. Bast wipes the blood off with his forefinger and pops it in his mouth. “Don’t look so forlorn, Mel.” Melidrei glances up at him, cat-green eyes dry...
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