RCMP Inspector Margaret Thatcher: call her Ice Queen, call her Dragon Lady.
I consider this a hat-trick, the general definition being "a series of three achievements"...as I wrote this fic for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW and for the story-works comm on DW and for the "30 Below" due South 30th anniversary fest.
The dSC6D snippets comm prompts were "sweet, dark, bitter, empty, shallow, deep, grief, joy".
The story-works prompt was "year of the dragon".
The 30 Below themes for the week of March 18 - 24 were "character study' and "give the ensemble cast some love".
Call
her Ice
Queen, call her
Dragon Lady.
It’s hard to see what’s
sweet in her – she presents
a brittle bitterness born
of empty promises and dark
doings against her climb towards command.
She is Inspector Margaret Thatcher
and she hides what is sweet in her, rarely
allows the silenced songbird to soar
higher than the dragon’s flight, nor
does she allow joys and griefs
to go from shallow to
deep, but rather keeps
her queenly cold
in place and
carries
on.
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