Chapters tagged toys

by Opps-Thats-Mine

Chapter 12

The runner does not wait for Pell to finish the chalk line. He is young and out of breath, and he talks to Marr instead of to you, because Marr is the one holding paper. Hemm opened Hal’s crate, he says, and the dress on the dummy tore when they tried it on the window-girl, and t...

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Chapter 13

 You stop asking him to wait, and you let the frame keep the count it already has, because fighting the straps only makes the probe hitch and Sela already told you that. The wine-red lifts and drops on the same breath as hers, and the blun...

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Chapter 17

You do not put the robe on, because the latch goes before you have decided to, and it is not the king. Another man comes in with a tray that does not have bread on it. Metal laid out in a cloth: rings, a collar, two small capped weights, a third even smaller, wire so fine it look...

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Chapter 18

You pull the robe on before the key finishes turning, worn wool over the lace and the new rings, Sera’s winter smell shutting around you, and you drop back onto the rug with the tray because that was the first order, even if a second mouth already put you on the bed. The beads ar...

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Chapter 27

She does not stop. The second wipe is already a slide, palm flat in the white-slick on your stomach, and the bottle’s heat takes her the rest of the way while she is still trying to convince herself she is merely washing. Her breath goes ragged. She stands up too fast, hits the...