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you construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other corpses by adastreia for roughmagic
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
17 Dec 2023
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Dear Father and Mother, you begin, but cross it out. Is that too personal? Too vulnerable? To whom it may concern feels like it may encourage just anybody to read your note. What if Gideon decides this concerns her? She is the last person you want to read the words that precede your death.
With what could be described as a shudder, you decide to forgo any sort of salutation.
I am a plague. And I must see to my birthright. Should I find it to not be worth two-hundred deaths, I cannot go on. I cannot be allowed to live any longer. I cannot bring the Ninth House to glory. I am a disgrace. I will prostrate myself before the Tomb, making my prayers, and then I will find a length of rope. I plan to tie the noose around my neck, climb onto a platform, and step forward. A necromantic death is too good for me. This must be done by human hands.
Goodbye.
And then, like the heretic you are, you open the doors.