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okay but what if we put more lesbians in it (mosses & heartsblood in the locked tomb)
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which they can now see fasten to cuffs at her ankles and her wrists. Her arms are folded in an X over her chest

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keeping safe below them a great two-handed sword, nigh as long

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as her own body.

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"She - "

She's beautiful. 

" - She has my hair - "

Gideon has never seen anyone else with red hair - not in the Ninth House, not in the visiting penitents, not in her comics, not in the Cohort propaganda, not in the pilots who bring them supplies - 

She tries to touch the face, heedless of the ice. 

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Her fingers skate across the surface, unable to gain purchase even for an instant.

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"Don't touch it!" Ellyn hisses, hand raised like she was about to do the exact same thing.

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She lets her hand fall, dejected, to her side. "Shouldn't she - she should wake up." 

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"God dies if she wakes up, Gideon, don't you ever pay attention?" That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, though. Worth it, maybe.

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"Not to that stuff," she mumbles, though she's also thinking that between an absent God, and a beautiful doom in front of her - 

Well, she wouldn't try to close the door again, if the Body started to wake up, she doesn't think. (Not unless she was threatening Ellyn, some quiet part of her whispers.)

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"We should go," she says, making no move to leave.

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" - We've already spent hours down here. We can linger a bit longer."

"...We can come back, too." She continues staring, fixed, at the Body. 

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"Yeah. I guess."

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Her thoughts calm, then slowly unspool, then her old restlessness is the only thing that finally breaks her even the slightest bit from staring - 

"I want another look at the ward. I want to know why."

Her eyes finally turn from that beautiful face, to that perfect red hair. 

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"See if we can put it back, maybe."

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" - Would it still open for my blood?" If they can recreate it exactly - if it's reset - perhaps she can run tests. Steal some of Aiglamene's blood, try one of Ellyn's parents' - see if a necromancer is even needed, if Gideon's blood alone, applied by her hand, would work. 

She could figure out why.

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"Dunno. Probably."

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She tries to look at Ellyn, away from the Body. "I want to test it more. But..." Her gaze is drawn inexorably back. 

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