Trixter
“said Rose Red. She had invited Lizinia and Trix back to her rooms for tea and refreshment and further clarification.
Trix was glad for all of those things, but mostly the food. This new body seemed to require far more sustenance than Trix was used to and he was starving.
“After Sorrow and Joy turned out to be such forces of nature, it was always thought that my twin would be the one in whose womb that prophecy would be fulfilled. We were the fifth and sixth daughters born to our family,...” she explained to Lizinia. “Unlike Seven, Trix’s foster mother, the rest of us took names instead of numbers as we grew into ourselves. And so my twin and I became Snow White and Rose Red, after the roses outside our front door.”
“Like the roses on the abbey wall,” said Lizinia.
The abbess smiled at the golden girl. “Those grew from clippings of the very same bushes.”
The red velvet cushion of the abbess’s guest chair was thin and lumpy.MoreLess
Trix was glad for all of those things, but mostly the food. This new body seemed to require far more sustenance than Trix was used to and he was starving.
“After Sorrow and Joy turned out to be such forces of nature, it was always thought that my twin would be the one in whose womb that prophecy would be fulfilled. We were the fifth and sixth daughters born to our family,...” she explained to Lizinia. “Unlike Seven, Trix’s foster mother, the rest of us took names instead of numbers as we grew into ourselves. And so my twin and I became Snow White and Rose Red, after the roses outside our front door.”
“Like the roses on the abbey wall,” said Lizinia.
The abbess smiled at the golden girl. “Those grew from clippings of the very same bushes.”
The red velvet cushion of the abbess’s guest chair was thin and lumpy.MoreLess
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