@witchesnevercry​ | starter call
“I’m alright, Modesty.”
It’s a lie. Sin, sin! But Modesty is only young, and he doesn’t want to frighten her. True, she’s a tough kid, but that doesn’t mean she needs to see the welts across his palms that are smarting and stinging and bringing tears to his ears that he refuses to let fall. It’s his own fault, of course, if he wasn’t such a wretch, Ma wouldn’t have to punish him like this. If he hadn’t been so clumsy as to drop the bowls, had looked where he was going, then things would be different.Â
As it is, he cradles the hand close to him for a moment, breathing heavily through his nose before forcing it back down by his side. Ma can’t see him dawdling, being so lazy, or it’ll be more lashes for him. Laziness is a wicked, wicked sin.











