Luck Now

If I take any heed from Beatrix, I will bring you to life only after boiling your bones and sleeping with them, half-articulated, under my pillow. That was her idea of childhood. Mine might have looked similar had I not felt so brittle next to death. And water. And heat. And sleep. Mine was a pink room stuffed with two sisters.

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