[ dark rose ]

• there will be scrapes and sutures, viciousness and victory
• you are ruination. doesn't he know that?
• satin whispers and silken starlight murmur through the dust and shadows. your heart shines with liquid moonlight
• you have a mouth full of roses, soft as hyacinths and sharp as silvered steel
• the darkness is life, and anyone who does not know it now will come around, one way or another
• your moonflower skirts froth with clouds of taffeta ruffles, though the petals are shredded to ribbons of fluttering ivory and liquid ruby. there is a revolver sewn into your petticoats
• there are demons all around you, whether they are of flesh and bone, shadow and soul, gleam and glory
• do they think you have forgotten how it feels to be afraid?
• (let none be the noose)