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Sat 21st Jan 2023 03:08

Grim Things

by Lady Margarete Jaeger

CW: self-harm
 
--You can fill it with your grim things if you like. When it is dry, you can burn it, and all the grim things along with it. Maybe it will help, until you can talk about them instead.--
 
She read the note over. And over. And over. Fill it with your grim things. Where would she even start? She set paper and a pen out on her desk.
 
Fill it with your grim things. Maybe it will help.
 
Bella had been sent away from her family for trivialities...for politics...thinking herself terrible for...what?
 
Fill it with your grim things. Maybe it will help.
 
Nel felt terrible for accidentally hurting someone on a job...thinking herself terrible for...what?
 
Fill it with your grim things. Maybe it will help.
 
Schatzi felt bad for harm they had caused trying to make things better…thinking themself terrible for…what?
 
Fill it with your grim things. Maybe it will help.
 
Mr. Ramsey tried to end himself for something he didn't even know was happening…thinking himself terrible for…what?
 
Fill it with your grim things. Maybe it will help.
 
She could see them all. The flash of anger and then bodies, cowering or broken before her. The ones she hadn't meant to hurt. The ones she had.
 
Did you mean to kill him?Nevermore's voice echoed in her ear. And her response…I don't know.
 
But she did, didn't she? If she was honest with herself. It was a release she craved. One she sought. How could she ever tell any of them?
 
Fill it with your grim things. Maybe it will help.
 
She took her dagger from her adventuring gear and stood before the box.
 
Fill it with your grim things.
 
She drew the blade across her palm and let the blood flow in.
 
Maybe it will help.