[Feb 20][Shendiao Xialu][Written on the Wall]

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Title: Written on the Wall
Day/Theme: Feb 20/the blood that drips from heaven
Series: Shendiao Xialu
Character: Guo Fu
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Shendiao Xialu belongs to Jin Yong, et al.


But Mother is the smartest, most resourceful woman alive, she argued, watching the blanket she had just flung off slide lazily onto the floor. Mother will help Father see reason. And Father loves her more than he loves anyone. He will listen -

You cut off his arm. How bright and warm with life his blood was!

She wanted to scream, and beat something up, and run where no one would find her. Instead she drew her knees up to her chin. If she barred the door, never came out to eat or wash herself, she might eventually fall ill. Then everybody would fear for her, and forgive her enough to make the punishment more lenient.

And yet her father would worry about him more. Forgiveness would be bitterly hard to come by.

Had she told someone to clean up the splotches and stains? Were they still visible even now, in his sickroom and along the path where he had taken flight, half-unconscious with the pain? She gritted her teeth, hating him for putting her in this position. He deserved what he got, that was for certain. If only he was not the son her father wished he had.

There were noises outside the door. Her father's voice, raised and agitated, punctuated by her mother's calmer tone. Soon they would step in, and she did not want to see her father's face then.

She clutched at her elbows, but it did not stop the shaking.