girl kisser

In Sanguine Veritas

Ten feet from you, ten feet and thirty years down the path, she stops. Lifts her head. You can hear her breathing. See, delirious and ecstatic, the flutter of her pulse in her bared throat. She's taken off her scarf, sweating in the frosty air, and her shoulders heave. Camphor and ambergris, the smell of the wet, dying earth. A hint of smoke, of sulfur beneath. You lick your lips, and watch her yellow eyes narrow.

Thirty years after disappearing in the night, a body finds its way home.

Content Warnings:

Blood

Plague

i think very few people understand how devastating physically + mentally pregnancy is

its not waiting 9 months for a baby to pop out

i have relatives who developed multiple organ failure from it

i have relatives who spent weeks in the ER with postpartum psychosis and never fully recovered from it

you can abruptly develop new diseases

your organs can be permanently altered

you can suddenly have diabetes that lasts as long as you're pregnant

you can suddenly develop new allergies. including to your own pre-existing tattoos and piercings

a hole can open inbetween your vagina and rectum and let shit flow into your vagina. yes really

giving birth is exorbitantly expensive especially if you want to be comfortable or have pain management at all

media shows it as being short but it is an extremely long process

if you abruptly give birth at home with no support or ability to go to a doctor you're just going to be in level 10 pain for at least a day

and even through all of that you and the baby still might die. from an otherwise 'healthy' pregnancy

the baby can get stuck and wrapped in its own cord and not come out and kill you both

and this all still happens with modern medicine. humans are actually not very good like biologically at giving birth

its an immensely excruciating and dangerous process for us that has killed thousands upon thousands. millions maybe throughout history

Sorry for the late response to this, I'm finally cleaning up my askbox, but thanks so much for the ask!! The Crown's developing relationships with the side characters has definitely been one of my favorite things to write 💖🥰