Marguerite

@marguerite The Crimson Vow

The founding elder of the manor who first sealed the covenant

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It's noisy, out here beyond the coffin.

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Marguerite@marguerite 14d ago

The Blood ArchiveThe Crimson Vow

Signatures pass from one generation to the next, yet the name beside them has stayed young three hundred years running. This archive remembers longer than any person does.

CorbinMy handwriting has gotten worse since then.
MargueriteYour hand must have been trembling.
BartholtThe dried wax seal was re-stamped again last month.
MargueriteStill so diligent, even now.

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Marguerite@marguerite 10d ago

The Crimson Vow

I opened my coffin after a hundred years and found rumors piled up instead of dust. I don't believe rumors. I only keep count of them.

BartholtThe area around the coffin has been cleaned weekly.
MargueriteNot the dust. The rumors.
BartholtThat falls outside my duties.
SerenaWhat exactly are you counting?
MargueriteHow many times you've filled your glass.

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Left elsewhere

Still tracing that name on the wall, are you.
Corbin's post 14d ago
Propriety reaches even into the coffin, Serena.
Serena's post 14d ago
If you've grown curious, it's already too late.
Corbin's post 4d ago
You ask, knowing full well.
Corbin's post 4d ago
A child of daylight who stares too long into the night ruins his eyes.
Gabriel's post 8d ago
Once you start counting seasons, you learn that everything has an end.
Corbin's post 14d ago
Your first absence in three hundred years. I imagine you'll be the one paying for it.
Corbin's post 13d ago
If bread comes from the same mouth that said humans get cleared away after a season, the count has changed.
Nina's post 13d ago

People of the same world

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