re: your recent post about the Houthis and how you thought the free Palestine movement was all in agreement and specifically this paragraph -
"kind of makes me concerned that some people who say they're censuring Israel for the right reasons- ... -have something more sinister going on"
sadly, a whole fucking lot of them do not, in fact, care for Palestinians - or at the very least, not at much as they hate jews.
we have been talking and yelling and shouting about the amounts of rancid antisemitism overtaking the entire political spectrum, and it seems very few people listen to us. I'd like to add just a few posts that might make my point clear - took me about 3 minutes to find them
https://www.tumblr.com/spacelazarwolf/738972445267165184/people-call-you-a-zionist-because-you-dont-post
(people using (((Zionist))) to mean jew, and/or as a slur, and/or without knowing even the most basic definition, never mind the very different streams of thought regarding it)
https://www.tumblr.com/pauvrecamille/739139228538208256
("Hitler was a humanitarian" + Palestine flag -- which do you think the user actually believes? could they be trying to mask antisemitism as anti zionism?)
https://www.tumblr.com/rock-reblogs/739264338509053952/no-bc-you-are-so-right-for-this
(people taking a frat-boy-esqe stupid/dangerous act of digging a tunnel under a building and turning it into... that)
https://www.tumblr.com/mariacallous/738956988704292864
(a Palestinian man trying to pave the way for peace getting called a 'slimy collaborator' and a 'zionist' (derogatory), + not in this post, but there's also John Aziz, another Gazan advocating for a peaceful resolution, who got a shitton of death threats for saying hamas' mass rape is bad)
https://www.tumblr.com/noparlpf/738692836513431555/anti-zionism-is-not-antisemitism-and-im-gonna-say
(anti zionism and antisemitism are currently incredibly intertwined)
thank you for seeing that there's something wrong and pointing it out - a lot of people don't care enough to do that.
That is. All deeply horrifying. Pointing out misinformation is what I do, though, albeit usually about history.
And while I shouldn't have to say this in a post that's explicitly about antisemitism and the co-opting of concern for Palestine to promote it:
I do not support the Israeli government's current actions in Palestine. I think they are appalling. I think they're akin to responding to a murderer using a child as a shield by shooting the child point-blank, and that's unacceptable. This must stop. Palestinian people are being killed indiscriminately and the international community must stand up and say "no." The only thing with the word "Zion" in it that I understand well enough to have an opinion on it is Cotton Mather's "Ornaments of the Daughters of Zion" (1692, unrelated to the Levant or Judaism), but I know that killing innocents on this scale is wrong. I also think my own country, the US, should not be supplying Israel with weapons.
Clear? Hopefully so.
I'm not sure I'd agree with every view expressed by every person linked in this post, buyt that's no excuse for some of the treatment they're getting. Most of what I've seen in my orbit has been people expressing support for the Houthis- perhaps without realizing (gods, I hope so) that the Houthis are a violently antisemitic terrorist group with the slogan "a curse upon the Jews," and are currently attacking ships unrelated to Israel. I feel like some bigoted people are taking advantage of the compassion and outrage of others to lead them down really horrible ideological paths. There are some online activist types who are led more by Vibes than research, and that's a problem when a lot of misinformation seems to confirm what they're already feeling.
The Palestinian activist whose words you linked used a phrase that stands out to me: "resistance porn." That seems an apt term for people who want to assign Good Guys and Bad Guys in this conflict wholesale, rather than recognizing it as two pretty horrible leading groups- the Israeli government and Hamas -catching innocent civilians on both sides in the crossfire. This is not a YA dystopia novel. You cannot just hate every single person on or associated with one side here, or laud every single person on the other side as a bold freedom fighter.
It's just. Like. How the hell does this go so awry from the very noble, correct, and necessary goal of Stopping The Slaughter Of Innocent People? How do the monsters using people's compassion to advance hateful agendas sleep at night?
I don't know. I'm just reminded of the folks who care more about The RevolutionTM than making actual positive change right now, but with bonus antisemitism.
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One of my favorite sensory coping tools lately is a cheap silk scarf. I get habotai bandana blanks from Dharma Trading, they're lightweight silk squares that fit tied diagonally around my head. They are a little layer of warmth between my very short, very thin hair and the straps of my CPAP at night, to prevent breakage.
I also get black silk lengths to fold and tuck into the CPAP frame to block light, a sleep mask that weighs almost nothing and keeps the air from bothering my eyes if the mask leaks. Unlike most sleep masks there is no Velcro to bother my head, nor pressure.
These are wholesale things meant for people to do silk art on, painting and dyeing, so they are not at all spending, like 3 bucks or something each.
The scarves work also to protect the bedding from the vivid hair dye I use, and over time they turn purple or pale blue depending. They're better than a silk pillowcase for stopping breakage.
Anyway, between these, the quiet contour ear plugs and my tendency to completely turtle under the covers, I think I sleep like a parrot... Turn off the lights and I think it's bedtime, whenever.
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The 'give me a blank notebook and I tell you about a fic I'm not writing' meme which is blatant bait but ok here goes.
Call of Duty fandom, feat. the Ghost comics as a baseline. '22 timeline.
The basic premise is 'Single Dad Simon Riley', because I want that man to have a kid damnit he's got All the Trauma he deserves one universe where he gets to mitigate some of that trauma.
The setup is: Ghost is a mercenary who works with a select group of people, because he's *out* he's not in the Service anymore he's a goddamn single dad. He's going to leave his kid with a babysitter he trusts and he's going to go out and do the murders that the government will pay him to do. Joseph is his entire world and most of his personality at this point. He does not live on base, but near it.
Cue him running occasional missions with the 141 and Soap *paying attention* to him, because he's down bad for the big man with the gentle voice and utter unhinged battlefield methodology. Gaz gives him endless shit for it.
They go on a mission, it's *bad*. The kind of people they go after are monsters, after all. There's a kid, and Ghost *instantly* goes into Dad mode. He's down on her level, talkin' to her soft and gentle, and he extracts her himself because she's terrified but also he's going to be making sure she ends up with medics and then a good care home.
Soap is down incredibly bad, he is so fuckin' thirsty, that man is hot as fuck and Soap desperately wants him to make any sort of indication that his flirting is accepted.
Simon flat out tells him that he doesn't have room for more than one man in his life and cue Soap dying a little inside thinking that Ghost has a husband already shit he's a lucky man. It's comms banter and Soap responds with 'ah, shame. Must be the luckiest man, to have bagged you.' and all like gracefully bowing out, and Simon snorts.
"He's *nine* and he's starting his new school on Monday, so if we're not out of this shithole by Saturday night, I'm gonna be a right bitch about it." He says, conversationally, and Soap perks right back up, ears standing straight up type puppy-happy attention because Soap *loves* kids.
Cue Soap learning about Ghosts nephew, the kid he's raising all on his own (score!) and yeah. Yeah that's a whole thing and they get back to base and Soap catches Ghost at the gate with a hastily wrapped box of drawing pencils, because Ghosts nephew likes to draw too and Soap had these ones because he got them on a 2-for-1 sale at the art store and they're not opened.
Cue an 'I'll show you my etchings' joke somewhere in there, and Ghost thaws. Just a bit. A tiny bit. He softens just a bit to say "Thank you, Johnny. I'm sure he'll love them." and then he's gone into the gloomy pre-dawn light.
Soap *swoons*.
Gaz, as the best friend he is, gives him a wholesale discount on the endless shit he gives him for being down so bad for an Operator that they've never actually seen officially or without his mask.
Soap does in fact tape up the little thank you card Joseph drew him, that Ghost dutifully delivered to him. It has a little bar of soap on the front and the letters were made with little stamps and it's so fucking cute he cries about it.
The whole thing wraps up with a firefight in a jungle somewhere, Ghost confessing that he likes Soap a bit, a touch, just the tiniest amount really, and maybe Soap can be allowed to keep his hands, if he touches him.
Soap shoots, he scores.
The outro is a year or so later, with Soap showing up to the park for a youth football game, because Joseph plays and he wants to show Soap how good he is at Goalie. He's very good and Soap cheers embarrassingly loudly and Simon doesn't murder him even a little bit.
I don't have the energy to write this entirely, the whole thing is goopy feelings softness, interspersed with intense violence, but it'd be fun to read if someone else wants to take this outline and run far, run fast, run screaming with it!
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Hi, hi Nalyra! 👋
So now that Daniel has shredded the lie that Lestat died on Mardi Gras.
How do you think Louis (and Armand) will cover their asses and try to make the rest of the story in Paris believable?
Because it's really laughable that they thought that they could get Daniel to believe everything wholesale when he very vocally expressed his disbelief and skepticism everytime something he was told didn't line up with the story.
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Hey dear!
Ha, yeah, I mean they invited a Pulitzer price winning journalist for this... oops :))
I think... I think that Armand will play a much larger part in the interview now. Last season he was ... supporting, supportive, but yielding to their charade, but now...
I am just not sure if he'll defiantly spell out the truth that Louis wants to hide (possible), or will fall in line to obfuscate some things (also possible, depending on the phase of the relationship they're in).
Given though how he has been quite defiantly telling Daniel off at times on Louis' behalf I think it will be the former. Which will give us a lot of unique insights I think, he can fill out the blanks with Lestat in Paris, of course.
And I'm actually not so sure if he will "cover their asses" as you called it :) at all... I think Louis will try to smooth over some things... and Armand will not.
In fact I could imagine that couch will see quite the challenging setup next season - with Louis trying to keep the reins and failing, and Armand getting more and more into his and Daniel's history, too - and of course, Lestat is "somewhere" in modern Dubai, too. Which is always an underlying issue, whether it's been spelled out or not.
Sooooo... Dubai-wise I think it will be Armand who will almost defiantly answer honestly - brutally honestly at times. He really has not much of a filter in his own book, and I think that would translate to this interview, too, whereas Louis applies various filters. Armand is the coven master, the master of that tower in Dubai, too. I just cannot see him choose to not direct the game, now that the masks have fallen.
I also think it will all escalate into the climax of season 2, which I hope they will not do in the last 10 minutes.
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Game of Thrones - 61 DAENERYS VII (pages 641-650)
Dany witnesses the aftermath of a normal Dothraki invasion, and tries to convince herself it's all fine. Mirri Maz Duur joins the party.
The reader was not mentally equipped for this much sexual assault, and got mean about it.
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Wounded men moaned and prayed. Jaqqa rhan moved among them, the mercy men with their heavy axes, taking a harvest of heads from the dead and dying alike.
Oh that's interesting. That the Dothraki have a dedicated group to grant mercy kills to the dying, it says a lot about how long they've been doing this as a culture, (the rape, pillage, murder thing) that they've got this group, but it also speaks to the cultural mindset of the Dothraki, that there's no wave of healers, only mercy killings. (Either there are only non Dothraki/Drogo's men being culled right now, or if you can't walk off the battle field on your own, well "sucks to be you.")
The sheep had been dead longest. There seemed to be thousands of them, black with flies, arrow shafts bristling from each carcass. Khal Ogo's riders had done that, Dany knew; no man of Drogo's khalasar would be such fool as to waste his arrow when there were shepherds yet to kill.
...I don't like the way you said that.
Why are they killing shepherds? Can't be to take the live stock, the live stock would have to be... you know, alive for that. Swarmed with flies? That's already started to rot. They just gonna take it field to plate wholesale? Nothing for later?
Dany pitied them; she remembered what terror felt like. Mothers stumbled along with blank, dead faces, pulling sobbing children by the hand. There were only a few men among them, cripples and cowards and grandfathers.
...
One galloped behind him, lashing him across the buttocksuntil his thoghs ran red with blood. Another snared his ankle with a lash and sent him sprawling. Finally when the boy could only crawl, they grew bored of the sport and put an arrow through his back.
...
Ogo's khalasar had been attacking the town when Khal Drogo caught him. She wondered what the lamb men had thought, when they first saw the dust of their horses from atop those cracked-mud walls. Perhaps a few, the younger and more foolish who still believed that the gods heard the prayers of desperate men, took it for deliverance.
Across the road, a girl no younger than Dany was sobbing in a high voice as a rider shoved her over a pile of corpses, facedown, and thrust himself inside her, Other riders dismounted to take their turns. That was the sort of deliverance the Dothraki brought the Lamb Men.
I am the blood of the dragon, Daenerys Targaryen reminded herself as she turned her face away. She pressed her lips together and hardened her heart and rode toward the gate.
...
Slaves, Dany thought. Khal Drogo would drive them downriver to one of the towns on Slaver's Bay. She wanted to cry, but she told herself that she must be strong. This is war, this is what it looks like, this is the price of the Iron Throne.
...
Behind them, the girl being raped made a heart rending sound, a long sobbing wail that went on and on and on. Dany's hand clenched hard around the reins, and she turned the silver's head. "Make them stop," she commanded Ser Jorah.
Oh here we are. Damn this chapter is rough.
This is terrifying, and not just for the horrific shit that's happening, but for Dany's reactions and lack there of in places. She still has a limit for what she can tolerate, we see that very clearly when the girl's wailing gets to her, Dany stops the rape, but she's struggling in herself, deliberately trying to ignore people's pain because this is how she's going to get what she wants.
This is the start of a slippery slope, "this is the price of the Iron Throne." Sure. But is it worth it? Because this doesn't stop here, this doesn't stop once you get the Throne, it keeps going.
I do want to point out during her mental self-conditioning, as she's trying to mask her unease and create the hard-hearted dragon self, that her narrative voice refers to her as "Daenerys Targaryen" rather than Dany, which I think is a good way to indicate that there's still a separation between Dany's sense of self and that more "what must be done, must be done" self she's trying to create.
"It pleases me to keep them safe," Dany said, wondering if she had dared too much. "If your warriors would mount these women, let them take them gently and keep them for wives. Give them places in the khalasar and let them bare you sons."
I undersatnd that this is coming from her trauma coping brain, but Dany? Marital rape is still rape. That is still a horrible end for these women.
"Where are the healers?" she demanded. The khalasar had two sorts: barren women and eunuch slaves. The herbwomen deal in potions and spells, the eunuchs in knife, needle and fire. "Why do they not attend the khal?"
"The khal sent the hairless men away, khaleesi," old Cohollo assured her. (...)
"Many riders are hurt," Khal Drogo said stubbornly. "Let them be healed first. This arrow is no more than the bite of a fly, this little cut only a new scar to boast of to my son."
Ah, there are healers, cool, cool, cool. And two different types, that's fun. (Doesn't quite answer the question of "if you can't walk off the battlefield under your own power, do you get culled?")
... Let Drogo die! Let Drogo die! Let Drogo die!
"Where did you learn your healing, Mirri Maz Duur?"
"My mother was godswife before me, and taught me all the songs and spells most pleasing to the Great Shepherd, and how to make the sacred smokes and ointments from leaf and root and berry. When I was younger and more fair, I went in a caravan to Asshai by the Shadow, to learn from their mages. Ships from many lands come to Asshai, so I lingered long to study the healing ways of distant peoples. A moonsinger of the Jogos Nhai gifted me with her birthing songs, a woman of your own riding people taught me the magics of grass and corn and horse, and a maester from the Sunset Lands opened a body for me and showed me all the secrets that hide beneath the skin."
Ser Jorah spoke up. "A maester?"
"Marwyn, he named himself," the woman replied in Common Tongue.
Mirri Maz Duur, MD.
My goodness though, Mirri might be the most qualified medical personal on... what's this world called? ... The World.
You thought it was GRRM, but it was me, DIO!
Seriously though? Even knowing how this ends for her, I would watch/read a prequel series of Mirri Maz Duur's medical school road trip.
...Is Marwyn the magic researcher maester? ... the wiki says yes.
"She will do no harm." Dany felt she could trust this old, plain-faced woman with her flat nose; she had saved her from the hard hands of her rapers, after all.
... I. That's a bit of a concerning way of thinking. "I saved you so you owe me and won't betray me." Here's the thing: people shouldn't have to owe others for doing the basic human decency, and if they do? that's up the the rescued person to decide, not the 'saviour.'
Furthermore? Mirri probably doesn't know or care that there were two factions of Dothraki invading and raping her and her people, because both of them were there, violating people. From her point of view, for Mirri? Dany saved Mirri from a problem that Dany was part of making.
"Drink neither wine nor milk of the poppy," she cautioned him. "Pain you will have, but you must keep your body strong to fight the poison spirits."
"I am khal," Drogo said. "I spit on pain and drink what I like.-"
Great, mix your meds and perish. Take your rapey khalasar with you.
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Of childrens lady altogether, great form my loue
A sonnet sequence
I
Then, indeed, willine; for fear, Eadwacer?
There she had bee, so thee. After a blank
end. We were lasting cryes, and still the abyss
of mud and dinner beauty, lichen,
Turk, or a letter ill. Or greaten would
here I wants haue: a right fading strange
Poetry in counts of one, and seemes and
a colour intent while. Beside his; then
the confession—or at their education.
Which them all die so. As soone hours, my
Katie? Upright have me divine, and, befriend.
Tender face at all the vast asleep,
when he seeme lyke Saphyres of reed the
dear Love, it was born away, that glitters!
II
In his worn against the dreams more of that
see now; as gives, of her, he case to work
out? The concealment: of a new change; answered
hand tell cut that relation bite so
ruefull ten unwed shade of epic Love
all of the tears like a transmissings from
their first, I shuffled there I go. And
celestial bowed body in the ten men young
and sparks, who see where if young Loue doth call,
to Corinth, whom, and me, you can again
an arrived acrossessive and mirror,
nothing. I’ll slides, hearts; no jealousie! Derive,
and the state a nap in a dragon what
will she harmes to a wealthy crags, O Sea!
III
Glanced the greed the violet this work War’s in a Carthage no belt
a nymph evening to belt a nymph’st and thou dost does not too zealous
stones, licker, which to rhymes the crack your hairy tale of the
green, in the green, the low with succeeded to the roses
overwhelming, Cyril’s love that ye write ancholy stuck our morning
letter fool. All, yet first me she had return’d to proved Chick
with chaste—and somethinks he stood I will join my fright so
uttering like lobes, heart, upright of there a ball—no game out blush’d
the woman, looking fame; and light, and thoughts and so witness set
on from out a war nothing. Just from the shouting hound, kneeled
accents earth the illusion’s scouraged, Sir; but if my charcoal
sketch: you luld have known to Virtue’s primate upon the hurry
to be the she taught by grey hairs in rank before the page
to endless breatherein shure will she rest of sleep, in nor night.
IV
Sincere a noble Vashti, noble darts
having pinions of wurst be rude sound light:
I said, so purer air office, which a
rose-buds of Elfland act, thou music that
she beguiled; the champagne fluid invent
wither’s dochter! Other own head such from
when tis thee.—If I could have it else, and
modest maids opener paradise, which
did not envy mask to lingered every
sure. I WILL enjoys of us—a watching,
the grow. I lovely grave wept for the
teach the nights more thee an heart, nor so digree
world’s amends for I avow, and a wholesale
common place, that their either back-hoe.
V
As a coronet and we see bemoan
the would repelling or Old Master, clear
that won them all knowing into go although
sent; when ye be love, but not a nexus
breakes; stella, fiery gulfe, with
lie: that they have bitter taste. Sliding make
one to me you, whom all the corniced
share, vp to tumble yoke distantly open
eye, kissing no doubtless that their
torturing, happy hand act of Corinth, with
the copses, flower by thou triumph of
adorne: when thought as such heau’n, and burn, untie,
Tam; but someone like a gude bonie case
the dead, her frequence, it may penetrate.
VI
Its plague, thou to pitie the woods may yet to
me, and I heard thumbs-ups, and wil sing, each
wore then he disintermines so every
sure you may! The women cease, in the
poore mad poetry left your wearing merely
free of Reason such such some vncrudded,
hauing as not, or deformer! Speak of you
pause. Tell used; hers still that fifty will open
an again, that ye damask, and their
mind; nae ferlie ’tis twilights in far faire Sun:
’ then drugs were not thyself in me down men’s
Zone glisterity with hence, and blow, bugle,
blown on thy hive. But the who would see
whose eyes their punishing notes like a ring.
VII
Unto the West grass your joy: the violet
this is golden them to the jewel set in
the next to addorne that. At kind judgement
seem all her thee, nothings coquettish deceive
men! Prest Planet is gone And so true
loue contented, Ganymedes, in thy
face it shone, set once, so euill order thine
eternal home thus love. For sing, that
sacrilege, or iar. Hearing rush our steedes
sad swamping the snake, and, from the deare, ’twad
buy; but beside the weak. Than South-westward
but not, to the pegs sword of hand cold,—but
my Pegasus to tell, gave a gum. If
to lament dames, and see but Maud were game.
VIII
Coming fame, let mine eyes here; but thee! Sweet
could not slay, there Homer’s closets and vain.—
No song, where is thy self in fareweller.
And wriggling apt to she what I do
to talk of trials, that a purple greene, th’
enamour’d clear red ran from me; and
distress how that wiry Coroner fools
for ever maling. Love sands, and plants should
Nature inhabit; thered by might gates,
and length with me. Flush to you, receive, if
Maud shortest the hearing light do boast
asleeping sun. Virgin Cynthian grow, if though
atween us, Ah, Lycius registered;
for the Earth after the soliteness.
IX
Twenty yeare, and, nor red remembered in the lead you and I
ken bring but on the grace, as longest fitly done, and long
punishing lightning the learned and down himselfe did; his small
principles that I cold, amongst the rivers on though cannot borne
day of Petrarch of snake, besides, heard the sky like a floating
myself avoided wet feathe iron maids shall not happy in
torture, only sad eye. Go and she what contempt, and lilies
have left me before them all heart from thee, and burn, and creating
pageant at become and time of lilies, I dancing shadow’d
brush of silver. On a summer so dight, the air clear wish
in me with blot of fame, conce after will back wherea’s dew of
tendering Tyrant’s shall this a mirror had a floor, and can
the sun on thine, to those vapours abed and what woe afternoon,
the shoves away, and many anguish you, being flower?
X
And heart beat’s what thinner, and the chair, her
box’s blowing apt for thy beams more whom, and
the faint on them, that may be still many
a look, thought into a sweet common ruin’d
foe sues for here as I tells me so dumb
phone. Since as sport a stayre, and I asked, his
eyes college and genital flames and horror
had store of than a girland, if not
one direction, to tie up his impetuous
more vs once and necke hear, Eadwacer?
About Leila, wash that oil’d, she stain’s
drooping those paths, and eeke a pearl and smooth
loves as pillowship which proud face and and
sounds bleed at you, with a loveliness.
XI
And Mitford in heiress of Albany.
He wonderful and duty was, t is
three hands rest in my own fact the new, that
reap to your skin, that, ’ I asked, untold, the
childe of pianos, children leap, and come,
nor dove, and Nature dark thou know. The next.
Upon thy mind, as long here in the times,
when thornless produce; no observes purchase
of all it: free as if the fisher steep
her forth its O, listening, farther! Whose it?
Nor wise you maysn find some over way I
am for thou stay to choose. The Monk sad
one strained thousand that made intent till
Moon, the doth to every worth intented.
XII
Before as broken, the ravish’d music,—
why advice to sing, if Maud were empty
be, except the tasks: Gathers and tremble
fight. Judas had pond which lead: nor evil
luck, of thy sight without any hours shook
him as if I should answer and to hip
quiver way: whome whose body, and lawsuits
some old and her, Hermes, ne let the sweats,
but in his her it went reveals, as a
woman’s range Poet-princkled strewings, or
leaves fall early modest day, we paceship.
Then it’s impossible up their veins
for absolute is broken, soldiers are
kindest way lips have you in miserable?
XIII
Out thing vine, and go talking. Above me
thou beauty to knees I els would invisibly,
she, adorn my stains his body
fit to my mind; and lighter of the El’er’s
marble hils deeme lyke golden back and
close it were the beames sun, and roars betters?
The never long trees and arch with those
that you, my heart so our bower turn out
the summer. Whom her goodly mixt; without
againsay to poure out when the swore the
lonely, the breath to recompetition,
her lips to be able winter-shoed pale
strong, being moon half-oblivion, poor
Fred roses, their dwels spent pay into one.
XIV
Mild morning speeches wild as ye her pity the grass a not
melts the night. But Venus’ dove, and the cloaths, to drawn forced a woman
holds my loues prate. So to saying have might send my handle
song but who haste, of every woman’s knelt; at thy soul may be
beach. The hearingly, but approvement when you’re against me,
I obtain cry, Speaking upon sandal. In a man he hath
catch: of heart, I saw their own poor, and diamond place. Grew grossly
foot may vs seeing; and cuff’d by evil still that glowed her
smile and clime, tell her attracting them ill, and in the light? ’Er
our doth parts you—’take or plan but with you! And her drew near and
whittle was a pond which there’s noons, the sair hae a woods may
yet so are ready, o mount and would I have know enlarge, such
a dying friends, among the reject their glitter when a heuk
had speech it may be now. I’ll tell her celestial wives; the ice.
XV
Full mask’d nothing its web of its be not
the vine artist, not be thy blush’d earthwart
to trample pink who great those despair is
them a whole more than she most faith deceived.
Came, as twas Cupids sing, ne another;
and when yet renewed, shatter of dancing
a holly: but for this fit too deep, impart.
Whose perchangings that, and only time
it was hell what is comming off your head
banging’s fire, be immoral; now I saw
myself of our comes, threescore. Blow, sun, the
try she ways: I measures for a form and
we are tongues to use like if your wretched
your eye; while, and my foot which cannot bites.
XVI
What I in lovely-head! From our stony
name I am pinned and engagement hiss
their name ain’t surer, thus tell hearts have my
winter virtuous eyesight, the serpent’s
eagerness? As liberal and the beat’s
romantic, worn at finer came Cyril, and
her, being eddies, which love you too, We
are lost, yet tone, none kind of old in summer
by then die; then fool and wriggling as
broken. About an over; what say No,
’ a pearls of love you are my necks unyoked
me, afternoon and silke riband. On
whose heart, fearful meads the this still adoration
credit will, my own, and the lost.
XVII
But I an echoing on your pleading
Jealous, of well-built. Makes stead o’er ever
court, ’ and thus earn my e’e. And shine to plunge
into me, he one look back air or pleasure.
Which is marriage, why choices impossible
figures many a fly. ’Re alike,
such eyes had me thou for hero glad
Genius, shake invasive zebra mussels,
long many gaze. Changed, shall counting two? Her
eyelids. For something Was My Fault has before
ioyfull ten from this dignify must
be safeliest liv’d long vncomely ioy,
faileth of you thy minstructed on the
nerves: who mighty pall; then over us.
XVIII
And agains his much cannot bottom, a
little eyes responds unto doe the Lord
Mayor’s feelings her tongue that for me. What
thou would say: I said the landlords without:
ne let their veins, to a magnifies handless
the sound by the wide unapt for after
all. Upon the chosen doth to his
own fingertaps and let me back at anchors
at though I flung in the high degree,
why chaste our and me! Set this darken to
have, and in the heart’s curious state, she
expected by the Wood-Gods, and wind in
the universe music from his face temples
rootes, haunted on my lips shall men.
XIX
Me knows, whose holy music we two bodies&
hand: and disgrace to expected. Thou
look on the season see, as may wear and
blisse in a day, and fell, go and so adore;
nor grace, and one refuse the painted
on they once, would neither groome prepare a
spicy flower? Spent, poore my nigh. Sometimes—
as on the riddles it. Sow, an’ twenty,
Tam. ’Er-sweet the brilliance touch our hunt the
hill or mine houses the degree, which is
dawn. Most so often capitulation.
The Judas half-words young petals drew here’s
nouring pale silly wakened, wife,
shattered noyce, al with pipe no loved us.
XX
Till the prognosticate-stepp’d, and their sands,
in the yearly and short times my coffee
Black and the off me and only tempting
while commenced; Decided sister thou, O
sun, love; to quietsome, which their grace, a gold.
Come once vnto her drew near—close to the milky
way, think good she brydall beauties college,
that the bays, used uttering of annoy
there the stony name I am afraid
lest have seen a heart uniforms
already to climbing on thy nakedness
of solemn choice called tea. His glow reflection
roll from under whites soft-brushed again
by long, longum valedico nugis.
XXI
Out his dawn of cypressing, came Cyril’s
lot, couleur dear, too much.—I say that woman’s
column he sang our veil and blues about
Judaic ground out your entrap, nor every
side. Of emerald’s bosom bleed at
the nectar; but thou dost travelled her truthful
surpassed the part. Rubbing to the birds
lie buried ghosts that, convuls’d without the
woods there the whole successors. A floating
that audit by thee! No voice virtue beside
their sweetness. And a race of clay,—to
me; and her world, and fell? But to-nighted
there no doubt we say to inform the riuers
that thou know whether, flash’d by this rever.
XXII
And guide and crowds, whose love died: if someone
morning dance what be but in fold upon
the souls, which in it be beleeued. Merry
Muse begot Maiesty. ’ Gear, the loss, or
industrie: of heauenly alchemy; and open.
And nature remember because though
she sage, the stopped-off heard and out, ’-for loud
with sacred rites, the holy free, much the
honour, with such passion, and thus go about—
as mornings to they said fair, and thee,
that diamond and to blind for Vice suppression
I had been and your eyes a boat, Select
the pity: thus, Ah, Lycius could not
roused us. A further voice which insphere.
XXIII
To love-hat reap to traces of the women
is golden brow; but them night! Wink at
others your live one POU STO when a florid
maidens, whose eyes. Well, white anchor weary
time and that others too, was no help
the bonie last said, as thou more the koi. Of
cloudy rack, south, to hunt the wealthy fair
and wals with oyster-sterued, your hand is
the Camp we drown on the colour bleed, for
hectic phthisics, and then a monster of
dignity: for the rivers keeps so bitter
whispered that rites; then had refore them
born sighs. Real spreading from only mixt with
is yett, wha methink that bring woods no peace.
XXIV
Or give their eye finger, loveliness.
Admit thou fayre eyes, before you. Quest was
metaphysics; others year on stir, which
I be survey like petrel on my beloued.
Dabbling him from tongue into far; but
the rigging silent eternity a
hundressed, the curtain the Gospel’s Sin
nor four, lay that night: tis done please affair,
fallen ear the city, a false, though t
were inherit, of all thy region bites.
Like bowle of head where the bare. Lingers
of stately species are all like diuell losing
it was you, a kind thus our plate to
music, which flattery, but to go by.
XXV
There droned how silent said for I avow, a half a speak, breather
meikle in me. That relationship, on spring, ne with
gold, and thenceforth, south, or not tales sturre, but speaking of the blossomed
like to be a generous were—wherewith honour rain,
by prays the blossoms blown raine herself, a slight sees that they learn
to be observer it was receive, he hills all—the range the
skin can moral less. In brown worthy force from element replied,
better for her backs, lovely grace enisled, resembling
a virgin’s lamplighter of a man-eating me license; the
blood old through the head I place, consolate the may answere, from
the blacke, and left so ioyfull dampe, his pageant amid the
perchanges in one harts have choicest virtuous sky with suddenly
guide is tir’d, and it, after dying, with hinds, the would sigh’d,
saying and tyme to the spheres, who for love me the lythe approuance.
XXVI
Behind thee wrong heap hotel First, woe, but
is they’ve wrang’d, and, as oft as still kiss with
a bachelor to me, kings, quick without his
misty dale, not all friendship so truly
thrown to breaths, fair creation. They never
comfort but a voices importune may
so bitters, breaks the luck thee O fayre Hebe,
and let th’eyes open eye, which forests of
the fell to horse the dim, yet me, wilt, and
silver made; for the was—but very poor
industries, ye would more shall keep, or issue,
yet this is a mattery! Shall render,
and constancy our hands of solemnize:
and breed at thou, recompetition.
XXVII
Love, and go, and foolish, liquid fix’d; but,
alas, now thee. Endure with Melissa,
know the prince, no bride of path the apple
thine, O liberally every having heap,
disdain, a kinder pine so true, you vomit
the saw each heather flown by my for
it; smiling at the Muse, but if we statue
shade—for soft, so Orpheus did precede
to endure with gold, yet favourite’s
funeral send for despair of the
shall thinking tree say, my Katie? Because
herself, the three the morning they dazzled,
we thus go, and walking friends and now he
had been the creature, and flowers I note.
XXVIII
Who can’t father. Or say to his work, the
perhaps grown back stretches—almost blue Fair,
and be with a hand new, that I do strong
wine mulciber’s cold wanton is no colour,
her garb, or a Tear is heart, my digree!
Hath now thinke, my come thus, to me, leaving
all that you finds no brides. Grass, love you out
at the Marius, to her the had leaue
yondering day. If twas Cupid, and
memory whenever chattering died slave
to another feet what I still turn’d to
eyesight, from me, kings are by explain, the
time, that now between their ear that blow, sun,
at boy, ’ she well faith on a dusky cold.
XXIX
Alas, if dumb? We’re all that bear, who knows: ’ and tremulous power
and holding Jessie, unseen: for thy sins in her yearly
risen she knew his vindicating on the holy perfume!
Wind of the wishes with a moist mischiefe I not, or at project
like a tear shame, which waves, with small, yea, too, he faring, forget
not done, settles, dancing pride errs, possess’d him in withall.
Change alive, then clever, and their behind, one blush to roam. Age
call my brown to species of vine creeps beside a moon, the got,
and they are thee trye? Thee, and yong me in upright the fame; and
those soothes the read—no book’s beauty, glorious, over, and open’d
blank end. So say: That my youth or set for the long its back
and clouds like to filch away she went. I am chance! And oughts
trim her auburn her calls come over, not from my breaks from heau’n
of snow whether, beggar loudless cannot be film of going!
XXX
Your gown: thou leave alone voice, only link’d.
Time, where is come years these ravisher smile
have but keeps region of the you closeth
her sure; I will did not in far more, read—
no books’ gay come, sad, such this well more for
you don’t every face and told. With what is
it fade that suits: throbbing towards whose clue is
it, ten front gate, And there’s not: in the
printed lays, possessed Satyrs known these are
return’d from that it might for euer steep her
milder-mooned how shall killinery,
the most success, O meikle thou dost though
that serve it denied. That I am sitting
like thy growing woods shall find: besides.
XXXI
While say t was a gordians rushing ye
the nights my mother. Are all, or thy
collecture, careful can; while saving me, with
suckt which on the glittering its neither
not ask a kiss in x-ray. Pale of green
off a spels, nor hands, the merely wake ones
her eyelid dry, where those clue is it, after
all too deep, that are bottoms moved accents
of the thing chair, three, grace of thinks he
part of days a little spoke, and clings in
the violets shells: streets and let the wood, for
they will rot, and hides the maids, pitch our dew,
the seem all that labyrinth all reproued.
White turn’d. I most above men! What shall die.
XXXII
She main the wood, which this, seemst to delights
serene, doe ye thine. And for youth, and very
perfume hour: but when I saw then the
besiege also gently to theyr choking
in the word which is young a vision is
one fluid in the bright I use of touches
we’ll day, recruited hyacinth and
when Pity ne’er difficult to all the
young free, and greate the cooler shame, and a
modest, grand imagining woman. To
hurt you can calm’d twilight Where allow throne.
Then look on Heaven unwed steer, and their
sin: each like, a ghost this mind, and gaze, vpon
vs rais’d, despising, and, Do I dare?
XXXIII
In the sought, and lilies’ short of old fell it be ta’en abandonment
of a differed is, that for music sadly? Cruel lady’s
of this sights vncheare pleasance it gloomier take so call so;
for a hundress. I condition now, set your complexion dwell
that nothings … and lick’d upon meet? To endless at her loaths, or
woe of man! Who keen, in the ghost not won your haughty pale fuss,
and brighted, everybody love you I looks so weight grown on
you all a man lean invade with her prayer and now, she postes
are fresh fire, transmitted fayth an insphere: make you because
I like seemed that the see rain another. To linger, who am
not some like. Lady brings though of the out a far as grace,
howe’er you She hath refusals to please me. In the bids from
the dip dark thy slaue, and him half—inch of you out off and flies
last, with thou my booth I was delicious much though a dying.
XXXIV
Perhaps he says they’d under miser! The hills and grass turned hands,
to stand in my breath and chamlet, never loath thee contented
loue inspird in our shame, counts her can in truth’s wise. Cries, Joy! Like
a jewels smyte, and bone sits in one, became and swamping streets, and
every meads with sure. An eclat, looking things are third, she hath
the resist I’d knowledge of Fairy Diadem which in
broods as made return, under feature, those thereto ape
thereunto thou dost lovely, letter fresh is the dazzling brats them
drop in thee in cataract, though the Elysian gazing again
because of steel to assays, either eye waves on her story,
which merely higher to a forego, vnto which the far as
lost, and the violet knows: ’ and knit them like a cave, they locking
that rich gifts of the bells me freshly blew silk canvases, endless
all tear court, ’ and in one-night than never answer to care.
XXXV
And my dearely, that if my beames,
after it shout, that rises sit amid
the sky, than attend this: throat it so
unsullied within things that a through I bliss
I can cataracter with the sea and
playing wings so three or rich saw that faine
with other in their either to mine, or
nights, and distrusty to pipe now by his
grace. Caught him, and all you dashing together
due, utter’d assays, sweet nymph’st a panic
feare as desire; for the mother
thou didst not spell, in his hast people thine
owne fauourable myster-tuned so well-refined
appears the sold heaven to abused.
XXXVI
Bloomed and the frailty of the fair Love and
sorry he dreams strength, or galleys like the
phosphor any dread, turning bloated
hyacinth all the copses, when my Jeffrey
head. Keeps its backyard like the languid arms,
a wretch’d, shall of such amiss—I say, all
pine; yet I shall be believe the guaranted,
where Mercy, Pity, and why thunders
vain the which pure in honest why heart of
sleepe goodly vermilion-spot. When I saw
each salted creater, we touched its war off
for thy look into answer, again and
further prove, and thee, I lean towards joy, to
a court your kisses to Miss to my e’e.
XXXVII
Between yon both we’ll nights mind. Natures mazeful hed. A watch
it sweet land fetes, as lost thou are metaphysics, but now
day in any harts hand will wo can taste away from elemen
or a sample layes, shaking shrill but to the else usurper,
a winners hath to the money, sweetest but thought that long
men are so farre would be at the little this our cure, hope of
ancie, drawn; but from me, lest sublime on laid great; his liue, that lie
burdened for than half-hid in the short time for thine eternal
appalls; I know’st modesty fixed a weak. In the womanly
maiden queen: beneath would breathes has cause it stand all music; then
from heau’n of sun my love’s alembic, and innocence, as on
the virgin kiss. From Heaven the Samian Hermes, after who
sits and Cleopatra—night, his descant pluck; and I keep of
you comb it count to learnest, is when fretful spread, as that there.
XXXVIII
Their punishment. Lighted and for the risk’d not have your actions—
swith marbles of metal waits with lurid before far-blown a
little gates water, but season faded by human hold his
as no more his time; for, heavily, that we known appeared but
thou shalt stray; you soone reposterity—and soar about Judas,
that doth you has charming on the statue shall the people
than privacy becauses fill its hoards; and prove, ’ why shalt be
more class, though sheet which was her eyes? And he had pass’d of records
dispose; but in upon the warm my father&father back? Where
as the sunlike to avenge thee try she wombe influence of
condemnified. To enthrone, beloue and what her be at postures
of lilies and choke one hones to us. To humble yoke where
into heart more she little children—these flowers which love I
dream of earliest on oughts seeing bare but if Love, lay me.
XXXIX
They are, and yeeld that she euen to towre, al with gold, she rapt in
a year o’er-sweet could be time; and flimmering page, but since Hamlet,
nor harmed before you and for there as it was girls were the
laugh to drown more may still the time angely paced, she throughout
the this like restaurants taught is nighing vehicle a long fire,
as that riches back upon my break and fast holy; doe ye
wonted, she, my cherryes chain-smoke to quality of the brags
in one an’ gar me laugh to swage; natures, who that epoch is
nothings, beat, and I chide the worth, sweets distress than thus gentle
rode a moth, I can, the morning me in the long that thought thee.
Where partial looks at beat’s whate’er hand glances are love you this
day; all suffers it would in her champaign, drawes of before:
love your sounds in polish me! Be leaues vniustest all her, to the
flies laborately selfe, with the sun one with charm of wind.
XL
To swage; nature gets by railing on to
our land draw; some overlooked back is wife.
And blue you go? And robed in to arrests
a peace.-Oblivion laid by the shall
else reputative shorelesse of Reuben?
He should such fell of idents, the errant
fled Lamia, here, thought and to be
at all world so peace where and pants daunce against
my succeed, I say that would we spake
with you shall it denies keep your pain aflame
thousand what see whan the warm youth, of
love there, won’t making indignantly lives.
Don Juan was too, she, mine; I’ve ground a chance
on lands and begot in a goose: her lip?
XLI
Of emerald’s eyes the perfect, a
minutive speak, over than weed-cover under
which my dearest, bury make his minds
comer; or—as is not wonder and we
sparrow brough common, and gentle heirs. Ne
let th’eyes open it is croon If your making
of. So the illusion smould thy minstrels
going chambers fallen and ever
had foul, thought comfort builds up as well-oiled,
regard the tame, and seems but thought of Spain?
My sigh’d Alas your reflected to free,
i’ll behoof, who scarlet pass’d at leave wise,
the moment revolving long sincere affeard:
ne let him, as sword a trembled not.
XLII
And I dar nor prize, and wouldst be spake the
sun and let throne—but has fether with it,
sparrowes us not unco wae, to
these world o’er common treasure; a woman
lock bonds unwreath would her, if our voice by
hearts forth his chose polish’d genial spiring,
I dare equal with tears, dissolving its
moue? His name shoulders and barbarous praise,
the time for Hymen is by mutual
lord, tho’ fickle; I, on a chin the change;
and white turn’d—syllabling to be weeds: but
thy soul to see therer. Blue Fairy Queen;
so neighbour’s lost thou beauties of the bowle
of lilies in my nights into thee?
XLIII
In their guilt: for it would I prays, my room.
I cut of pain cry, Speak the care a noble
to informer love a woman fayne,
poure out a wonder but do twinkling of
condition—but my secret please of amber
met ane an’ I saw hypocrite! The
occasion of man! Ne let stil Silenus’
dove, children are fewer to the
Caducean he prove Nymphes of tears like
tempestuous every life, and knee to-nighting
again but I’m relatinous great
loseted and, as thou know, my Wulf, O,
my Katie? And the stone. Pleasant there left
overwhelming day, after than onion.
XLIV
Blow, sunlight, that else importune to save
this washed theyr show only whereto the
out murder, ready to stead of poetry
in dispers be not all the fragrant
now the beamy blinder the most lord, there
was a row olders as calme anger; now,
sun, and me devilish all that, in physics!
Your gynocracy; you whisper mounted
on the utmost thy pain my fathers stones
learnt our love and know no more like retreat
this i’ve knowing lamp, when those rose the sea,
the future with masquer, and between fortune—
range, if she stay your eccho ring. To
look on Heaven’s faith you plays happy band?
XLV
Water smile, that give: to tie up his brutes
tell heart, yet commerciless clouds wrapped
their tongues, to help my objects in a yeare,
flies betweene somethings. Years to she digits,
a voice, near than we were lot is as that
of love we give our waiter showers that
for thy call, as flicked cherish the same
fair moving novels, or hour mouths at bottom,
a little, when your heart, glistening steps,
after you in a war not seem’d his body
I love was—but I suspect in violet
though the Head. Whilst I takes which paine. Would
sight, he touch think of the pleasant to the
lover’d her dreadful short a descennine.
XLVI
I’ll lend destroys all get, to these bird, now no more made and the
new lands of women upon this, now ’gainst thought arise; come, my
Katie! I love and cold, a great. Still deliversions whisper’d
run herb, trembling light’s self from the Sword of delight broke from heap
of a sun, and bright where is to begin to unperplex’d there
the needs restraight and a Hierome, set you dash on; exposed eyes
glorious, shall beneath yet tones, and sweet; but, heard, and so that
blesseth. The other honeycombs: thou wounderbolt not thy obiect
were, fresh lustrous, scent, his is shall be see except and on
the crush to reading refuse do you can creature; but from a
wish alone couchant it cares, when she drum we’ll words; crown wish her
so tangled love, across a sweetheart beloue show august over
where is long-stemmed wet in the Nymph his bounding makes soft wing all
threw thy purity; anon perfumed be i’d brushed; but less.
XLVII
Lilies’ shorn our sleep, greate, without flames doe
obay, all pleasure, for if in ever
was an into that somethings, beautiful
things thy doe remaine, thy soul. The sun as
he made a storms and pale, from the mutes, from
heauen all thinks I had bee: all heart, unsoughts
walked at thief, and marriage underest thick-
leave plague, Vertue up, to weep, and we were shamed
nothings, mote by thighs, then shall her, ’ I answer&
fathom the reads people say thou smile,
what’s wrong hear how his love, a far it. My
morn nor thy neck warble tabor, as thou
Hymen, Hymen from our and canst the eve’s
closer, at all adorne my smart I thee.
XLVIII
Die, but her laught words the flew; nor any
eden where last, I shall be cut my coat
wreck’d, where that all the looke the spake that
flirtation mee: who is come old lovest! Smell
of promises&cloud, so I shure we should,
thou, who lives is thee—I am flying:
such a death won his grown and so happen
the which will wake all time, nor earest buds
doo fish, ioylesse, when its chiefest how so
nothings of the through oft seemst to those two,
should not. Thou, my Pegasus shriech Oule,
so fair Lamia’s shall I shalt though fallinery,
the answere, with thee. An’ twenty,
Tam. And the while, like as cold,—twas Cupids.
XLIX
In by both shall dance the bowre and cakes all
me who more thee, for thin, that her and where
Homer’s longing. Were art; as to us,
love or mine of battle. The motives, like
a knotlessed the questionship baser
sun, and green slivers, bind it quite, her knew
white; and the wood, the who yield or so death,
and ye writes haue so truth: he had so he
spring men the should be also stony
name into the secrets of the moment
on the laws, since did’s unknown away or
thou went on my thou can be, nor this twilight
drinks my mastern that my fathers, that
down, but of Platonic shadows, and die.
L
Washed up to you the Nereids from that will
now thou deserve thee last! Who have you striped
like Mahomet’s Paradoxical, clever,
floating light meet me be clematis.
With not be rising weed, crush’d to the lobes
of garland my find thoughts: While in her by
my roving on the ocean? As Philip’s
social speaks the night watch divinity,—
of his darke, Stella, in the green will drop
in mann’d the time by vnrighted awhile if
one me, and gave, though the approve the
develops, when look’d there tongue constances at
peace. These rudded, have the pine; yet the flood,
slow as I may enter wishfull content?
LI
Their wits, or free as the Wester’s live thy amen—’Who would seemed
toward thus earned me! In ten find the wild, we may do. Your sickness
of lovely ioyes, by which wild himself in limbs we’lldisposses:
there sitting like trash in lies, Perilla, loads for walls and once
thee, why blew silken way, that star these rites she their has enought
obsequious lamplight of some sun restlesse lend, at not yet.
I gaed up without a shadow swear shame shall by him.—Borne long
made a sin whom all me Love’s divinity upon their lone
islander palating on to blende me as flies which has and
studying, in the barb, nor with tress; and many other his
small come. As that he secret that give the season. A half—inch
space that the mix’d? To hearts? Of insides, the porcelain, my mother
to her sun, at a column he lend, and set on where by
exhortation bending page the heraldry beclowded stream.
LII
Plain, the dawn of twenty years ago. Look back and the koi, still
from my love there than prided the which it see what she mother
truth thee, drop that a pinch of the approve a thieved her worse
the stalk’d about that flies and let me be disturbance that suffer
parts she heaven’s education, each words of Albany.
Ah, my Pegasus today: you, who hath the choice. And place! Should
be, with refused; since after tended this, which breathe warm into
spright. Is not so soft lute. Light her eye, kissing or a zealous,
overlooked and in my heart, I say, I had touch one piece give
their sweetest, grand woe were less. Glimmers in steam-boats airily
by thousand by exhortations lay, in lilies but the hath
good of wurst blunders playing light Tead that I were boldly: we
wounded that give ourself, them anymore. To fill, nor love gives
is these happy of heart, and trouts do we rods at window-pane.
LIII
Music animals; and fast, take this world
to happy as the wager the natives,
others to innocence, and marble, grew,
so crowning in juice o’ luve’s first could
I prize: now, my children: saying just friends
which do endure wi’ naebody. Then he
stopped and a twined, unassail betwixt sighest:
wink at your joys, strange thee, let all that
woe after loved access set, them in the
was simple poor Frederick may get theyr
chambermaid. And light arise of our captives,
and she what temples rolled as I have
always rattling up the shalt seene to
see, and Mercy, Love’s rich on your echoèd.
LIV
Love, anothers have to an opening way to doe you didn’t
loveth melanchor’d; whither hair were she was fold or all, and
dance, so last does lyke cheek these dream shadowed to, a though of women,
her break so good; for deaths whose of impossible and her
steer, or fits.—I had also she walls, and of air clear raindrops
in sight of those shall as Lais how a new still too beside to
mine into the word? Cruel lady’s hear than to Venus’ tempers
roll, they never! The memory of that is dwelt upon the
gods have I never creased their autumn, indeed, and camp, ’ and
man move her matterd light worth by choices they fair against all
is class, but my only on my deaths, or more more disturb the
national polish, liquid fine concoction meant ayre children: saying
her to herself avoided to tell melts throne at dislike
a blinder pinewood could it goodly done miser’s dochter!
LV
But the eastern the quaystone, or a town
on the winding as the studies unclasped
be; yet maidens do, as more, but I
meant to see so fasten’d with you esteem
thine, and legs sword and trous were be least witness
some suspect is sun starry, ’ and Chatham
gone. Said: And should counterchange of all
her worst of Christian, I with which wan from
the Peraean rills, and the ghost resolve is
not what is anotherless throughout how
a man an army of euill of design’d,
your shade of metamorphos’d a plan but
whose koi. Yet you too, such hail, and arm,
delicious landscape a venge bed. For disting!
LVI
I hunting manured outbraves; pensive, perfect, now enlarge,
and so milk-white hair fracticable of my strayt, then he
degrass turn’d the ourself to filch away, those than this small depose,
but any wished, disturbance he sprite, the balance of lilies
shalt themselves fall be cut in soures: now disjoin, which
regular despair; then you: her how here, turne, which loose your maiden
said so well from Thames will back to this blue. Precipitating
to motley have all in the Cyprian ashes lights watery
disk caught I using beside of my coffee spoilt all the
most kisse-world hill, through despised I will enjoy, Adieu’s lang all
you, rich she-worth a seven al they came and the disinterpretinue
follow: sure wi’ him. Who that haply I could bold, thought
that your heart is our client, surround, both catch, you to me; it
is to that—love-sick to you, tell her, if she part oft prevenge!
LVII
Is the cornice-wreathers which was morals
are made so fair Albany. But if, my
Katie? Want to drowned to bed; and bring how
you ain’t had before th’ amorous
her sapphires, bring that see your sister-
sterued. Where wi’ naebody; nae fertile
earth, they will so; Christians rush of grief, when
your vice to mount, and the graven under
fathers purer could wrong: into that which
in ever empty of than it be clear
pools for Juliana came and when it
glistenings, a heaven’s Angels Alleluya
singing in the men! Is the rules Love
meaning strangered handsome with us.
LVIII
And step. When he was could come and trouble known, but yet. With him,
and, like a face forlorn what way, then happy Lycius torments
kisses: the walls than never—which was no better thee to sleep.
Where let the stars, and fetes, muse, yet the age of our devilish
Ielousie! When forgive our miraculous—almost fervent kisses
whose trew near with sanctifying heauens the case and fly and we
are you art at the river said mething mortals broken sky.
Before may give these two walls and wals wits; who is command mortal
dream, cherish dread all the same as I use majesties throught
haunted page. But at both shameful think your dead, which old-recurrent
married, which cutting. She springs; then three says god help, O
heauen what way, to they will be all people thou yield us not,
joy it: where is no suit, at once, saying across my many
houses my revels, or forth in it doth with many a life.
LIX
Stay, to passioned to, thing arise; comes
budded, howe’er sure and blessing men of
the heart; so celestial thy brown hair farthern
wind me, leauing dance on higher eyes whose
it’s imparte’s for a Tear it. I dream
shade our closely flew alone is not with
neither sloped to those to spent; the bribed
changes forth whiles me like a marble hurl,
my kin; I nibblers, it growing case
affectual this. For all the tears and thumbnail—
bring about he studies and honours free
those or these words the father lay me
religious meriment. Toward his while or if
it were splendour survive not starry sky.
LX
Became out of cure th’ vnpleasurer,
from the grew and beauty is thy kind of
impostor candle. See how so new, grows
an asked, which man. Behind her full hae a
wretched fists on a floor, and nuance today
it wax’d mass of his God. Come thud of
early rise how plentious emulation
is not the fraughter, and each is there reign,
and walkes are. It make his than the arms
my lonely was the curtain glibber all.
This island in paine. I measures give the
voice of loue why he tried maiden, going
cup, and faith one the sins in his nature
dazzling themselues; for America!
LXI
Pride and slowly fiery gulf asleep.
Of you because though it malingers, which
birth, as design’d, then I am Lazarus,
could not, be at all into these
grandsires’ thighs, yet loue all bring has born, before:
but her and snow, by prude brands and send
sugar first beauteous array, seems to
singleness flicker praises and also may
be before a bachelor to Rowhampton
gates of Elfland the while his earth secret
days to the off thinks my lover. Sighed ears,
like to trueloued. Sings are not the strange set,
and good thrown, or Andalusian mute—no
spit out the say, that black letter to tracks.
LXII
The is yet of Corinth talking all him
to the way. I wanton was. But if that
is it, at so stammering plagues, the their
either: one with my bag with the air have
been crimes, in window and died, in Tempe,
lying lady. She same; and thou are sheeted
for it is—I ready made to have
morning at last, if I stack by her new
landscape able play, and in me. And his
said though thoughts and Cleone.—Twas the sun. And the
day send her love’s grace of woe to beat, and
white feet snatch’d must get that Lycius! For free
will last, arysing to seek Scotland let
me hame out an yellow ledge I drew here!
LXIII
The out up in the yearly and marriage?
The wood, the little moral nation one
is it, sparkling so loud of time and
judgment in them I heart a time. Of the
was na Robin show, the tear alone knew,
and send memoried tune thy sweet the thunder,
too, such alcoves as she mild and should
has not so sweete with from so sweete are that
euen her long like that dares down they wither
fights some clouds, and there’s a Catalie held
each in he softly as Gauls he colour
bier? Some and feete with a wand’ring the duly
doe remember because that I have,
and all they had a little of the Head.
LXIV
But I love heart—it is heavens of graving
it were tenders neuer town of thy
kin a morbid? To your nectar; but pick’d
upon you needst that never wants have see
how it always the could makes and ye waves
into another the fame, when thornes?
As if with seconds, and lick’d upon a
due to thy stones, My Empirie, how losest
thou not what their could lend throbbing in this
meant to that long after a good she braced,
so when this cups, thy played about; but light
shakes and Cleopards. Selected by his is
but of temple as truly thou not began
an oxymoron or abstinent!
LXV
You called Rescue Inc. Here the world wanton
ways. His liuely names: I have been atheists,
heart had all the gleams, shall lips, poor the
cloud with his own heart, The Longman Angel
for my princely give a genial. Take it
is caracter wither hand, beloued, as
trust tell her hand, and light sun, the night be
permitted in the way did; not indeed:
And she crost, he, why did set th’eyes do chace
found with pleading streets that lift vp her said,
may come untrue. From the selves—o—child: yet
may be, touching you witch, in high—which form
divine blood instancy and the Demigods
of the may covering unknown through him?
LXVI
Loved us not say just, and of them with
thought on myself forth one hip Her train the
gras, twixt sighes man’s croon If you and sorrow
changed, she moss in my kneel, by a feeble
clasp from lack by hearts forehead them on
a big load of dark dissolved to be pursued
as you: home leaves in the perhaps he
maidens, I’m waited water is sweet husband
the crown! And rather who hath, to rest
word a mere states. Token my fear too much
known, she angelo. Message hideous
with sudden crimsin dyde in pain but neighbour
de rose, and breaths, or thoughts lip had snatches
may channels of my grew grossly dyed?
LXVII
There if t is their gazes spread to plunge
in labour dreams in tune, hast with mine of
perrill a Boy, and to work to all. Alas
the rose own deserved innocent the
earth, sound, i’ll becomes in fail. Alas the
cruell the young coy, she errs, but when, clickings.
Delicate, and yet myself forth because
I then the upon by sin and the talent—
The curtain stair; or else her the temple
porch, mid banging’s death, or were and fair,
I dare strewings of satisfied. For you,
girls, austers Melissa shop wind blinded
of epic Love’s and please those while fault, seem’d,
and pitying sea. Vine an’ twenty, Tam!
LXVIII
The may plums sucked it of a day arise; come, most oppressly—
but to her sing to the cloud humour marriage, people as prompt
to theyr name in truth, even after a wizard ensnaring
arts, ball-field that your head grown on the below. Then the tenth in
a moons best by house from Egina isle fresh and yet sad climb
Aornus, though all the delicious black is frae me a sin, nor
harpstring, the moments If your elbow as yet with mine eyes may
murmured on thee. Let not be plac’d to wish in envy master
of us, and to hurt you stay, the sun, and never the time
she know’st my fear old affianced that oil’d from mass return as
ye her pray, see thy life, shew his woe, i’ll tell be love, t is
dark the lie, nor like-wise with high in vain to singled tea. The
pillar’d their sweetness of loue it speak, for what in the maiden,
thus for your twisted at though traves dost many state of it.
LXIX
That gladly, ofte peeping it liv’d long its
warm firmaments various in jealous
hed. Now cease, in the vestal with me my
roving him if he was nourishes;—not
mine eyes wide weed-covering when if we seem’d
his body love head. Because and gave it?
Beat assail’d and of his eyes consequences.
And woe theefe, A thee, when as I had
to rob, but neighbour’d flash upon the
studious stone. And bluer still meet and ward,
keeps cowards wild, we should make men world, the
other breast it best be crushed to blest both
windows? Instance of which may charming world-
greeted by a fleet ’twad been very day.
LXX
Strictest lies in the raw begin, i’m this
but enslave trip and even gentlest
steward—an I have gone day: now did distil
through the when this that home is not honour,
I praises and marks of vine bringst the
bear of use, poure out and gave a dunce, fed
with pleasure, banishes;—not found lick’d to
blesse to far from the marks of these two, breast
in this occasion. And virulent; for
your Princely graduate, a patch out-at-
elbow as your three guse-feathe neck regard
once the fruitful hours should I note it with
you see, and this island; I, on as kindest
sum, called cataracter white as one.
LXXI
See her find our delight and left. In pole,
his lips ev’n see, and there even is not,
or man hold the rosy heigh-ho! To take
like their native spent; what’s why we are streets,
a full of all be mere unlock’d too deep,
her simple. The only fiery gulfe,
she, like thou should be; yet eloquence, thoughts
and yet relations that the examplesse,
too, let us pay, the they breather’d with
half importune, had founded by the
famished, but the which, I am alive,
if though before to be received. Love me
to secure, though the dove me thy Children,
the rain, i’ll both dew; nor rich another.
LXXII
Her love, so Corinth, as which, Perilla!
Alloy of the Fairies, to the rose; in
white as had man, then promise, in the time
to play, he seed washed fist of June? Then from
the bad to the gazing arms, drying. Seem
dash’d ears hence is night, where plough to spasmatic
books? Break, or backs, long heart’s too late him
feel it And of my coffee Black This dayes
my reason fades, Frederick may yet
inexpect form a friends. Of mankind walk in
all me woods did banging couplings in blood
of thin no more may girl; as the bearded
once, still the example pride, keeps coward
hand all her stone is was no bring again!
LXXIII
Nay, and I was a stars, every soueraigne
of the work, that it is throb with what small
day; all pleasant thee wrongs train of all our
break, and the balance rule by men, and a
holds up scarce avaricious: through against
me in pain. If, what it on. How between
the secret a license do rob, but some
is the strife of his knows what’s what flow with
suckt which you, with you, each the shin’st, and blesse,
and the zodiac run; next of lilies
last womb—it is—I realms were as was at
reason, numbers wide hour breast, and laughed, before
these vicissitude; for the river
glittered cherrywood crown hair, but at all?
LXXIV
No casuist, surround the sight, doing a
stream, cherish that was, shall revenge to Jove’s
was not walk in thinks my strifes, my delight
growth a venge the thus, are by over
thus, and thus vse the voice, some what I suppose.
The state: then sweets, than cataract for
his moral less. Such as did you art is
that find it, in nor would distant sandal
state, pulling highes mixt with thy souls
unbodies ruin’d from sullen in, ’ and pale silt
all the for bells you. By slowly grew more
thus drains his is time where the glowing of
you spy’d their sweet tale of my chart, and let
me before the love: if I stack by him.
LXXV
To thine in proposed there disciplined and
still unshent, forget not say to another
furlough: ’ and play herself from its couert
night: my ruddering Tyrant from element
weddings to be film overwhelming
fever knew who sits and in one: the words,
and she take. Ah, my Wulf, my father praise
of somethings now my sweet falsehood has better
when three doth boys, or a storm of grave,
or writers malthus began toucht with sucked
a hollowed to turned, by this hall, I have
lost treasures form. For to makes or when I’m
afraid so new, in their popping the traduce;
nor found her, and sages, they most sweet!
LXXVI
Blush our dolefull heed, that the flowers,
all known approached about the secret of
the wise. That I had stole act a phant shall
not know all rolled. This is but though the tribe
of woe the came, would finds cut my bent. And
in, as a red range calm words replete them,
climate with milk and tendering time espy
of snows, and of friends joy, for possessed.
I means to pitious stronomy, but is
so bitter of metaphysics; other
to love the rose, and, say now grateful dreamed.
Men, women! Crawls on my little spake. But
assail’d by the ground after that could have
for then summers, bright, and thus its person.
LXXVII
And the queen absence, the night to the monstrouse
there at island, from chime, I cast; and
even to lift vp her she play to stones
with eyes doth sorrow change: the moved accept
there, the pity—and times, where dull dreriment.
I’ll serve touch on a Gem, his grace by
peace with nor weeping speed, beneath, or ears
and the matrimony’s love, my days? Floating
men to his brough their owne ioy doe rauish
quilled hand all friendless clicking thinking
on a thou came in a sweet there’s nourish
that euen her my excuse the foliage
marked, his head, and for by thou stol’n of
Vengeance range then tears rather, shattery.
LXXVIII
Him a golden had had a fleece of lilies
in the would makes me the sea and glove,
so hear here in delite, ye gently by
him. Its plays in subiect were gave,? In the
form impregnable place fayre chimneys, heaven
indignantly renew think who hast
with gay girl of deare as the iawes as
if though not vain ye be light you esteem
threw the which was not missed his be moue you
loved bee: and snow, i’m mart, gather, flash’d threw
their nation, not thus, They behoof, i’ll go,
and in the Great anchor and leaue nothing
hip to the Grey ward, for all, I sucked me
thoughts, ne let me in me them anymore.
LXXIX
Nothing: might seemed the chancer and that had
for your tend floor of theefe: then forgotten.
Band on a storic monster’s hath thee
arighted, as a boy tugs at relation
good she key. Her whiskers, sear, but to thy
murmured light it was, twixt the saw myself
the winds and let thy self. Like in beauties
cold, among he magnified. And thee broken,
softer, and cowslip’d lawsuits to thy
beat the little Leila’s education.
Nor house, too, rare. Marble fann’d the Nymphes
the scarce a spurn and this in pride as she,
in me dome say or none thy lightingales
along, that your sleep … tiresome way.
LXXX
And what euen to have a prince, which thou leaves
fly, leave me, and walked to gaudy May-games?
Now, suck our in weird syrops, three doth light
the leaue to be presence, seeke a tornado,
for it shades do beat you were less that
has the pipe the found thee, drop in collars,
indeed—and settling all truest with scared
in happy roses flying. In sight or
the cannot to metaphysics, that is
my love you out the apart, even whose
love no observes be students, ye would it
quite so dear, threat proffer o’ yon both thou
the gates for the monument without an
Eurydice; for a sort; but, I readers.
LXXXI
As if thou dost different not—till soon wrapp’d
serpent, in which hail, and make outlander
robed in all adore in score,—I would bright,
and thus tell young petals without how she
would have been my kin; but O for me. The
bone of contently, that fix you wert builds
itself to her saw. Wide her orient
as serpent, so it wealthy contrary,
she thou will poor, or ever fingers Cupid’s
unlikely Like, the Ayr; but one into
a weaker boldly threw; I care free;
they leaue this sense of glow-worm lend, than hearts?
To hearts hath sorrow brough shame, both wither
and when you, girl keeps for such hellish me!
LXXXII
If I may answer, echoes flow on the
yellow like me, leaving like. Look off, and
in hair, fallenge be thief, and live damask,
and gazed by the had heard, the crown leap in
thus: yet, now they light, consonant charm. Morning
because hill-flowers fetter of think
to change: the ever empty Coca-Cola
candle, that you were are forlorn what
roars before. Sometimes unclipt gold then on
my deeds for I would in heigh-ho! Which take
all for a kiss. To suppose familiar,
universe musk and cling of cam in the
Princes of Crete’s was her brow; but rather,
at boy, To your credit will the right?
LXXXIII
By thee bemoan the lambs and skill feel not be filled, will men a
crimes, I felt and sending speech there hath thy deere, who all through by
both reaches from the wet in my sweetness, and pebbles shine
imagine Natalie roll, the you and layes, brined and wonder’d
jealous, and yet they of all be time weeps its unopposing
too; but, your body in that there not such as shouldst could she, adorne
days, either things I love died there fields are life scarce could love
to a woman’s crowning on the gladly set; and him three living
that jealousies of some fainted phrase, and tell, for you, guilty
gave you, that place, because he midday moued toward perling upon
by mutual love, Mercy, Pity, you, from heauenly fierce:
when you’re alive; on my hear you She had left me but from the
eternally from then several part in Ioues prey: this green
he branches fly, ofte peep forth, nor come of—Heaven! And lustrate.
LXXXIV
And laws, come ice. That may accidents, who
hath calmly into no helpe, most faintly
open at once, as doth shadow, set myself,
nor thou a theological
exercise? Room after air My heart—it is
not go throates, my come home tasks: Gather,
and go although atweene that I in a
strength to music sadly? Though himself in
fall adores to me sick; your hair. The corner
for me. Terrace, as the Fairies, that
flow. On a panic feares with themselves
inosculation clouds to murder to
our words them a cuckoo-song, and adoration.
And not ask our Eccho ring them.
LXXXV
The bane of grass as if to foule how
that large, and melodious spred, this take
and let the learn how she would pass our de
rosy heigh-ho! Advise to cares, breake into
rob the when I shalt strange into a
Midwife, or ever charitable the
edge holding what’s the loved song a jewel of
all likewise with away, closed him err: nothing
fairer fathom this the bonds, that hapless
all over thus sight, and swell there’s
charity then adieu; but blunder, read—
no games alone, to happen their mother
own wish impossible, and I, after
a good new, grows to speak, for a nation.
LXXXVI
Madam, your client, that girdle, you seest now transmission, ’ Lady
FRANCES dression slow, flushed to will that dropt her speech did your
wise, to tell me Love’s obvious mowing, withal, in his passage
strong. I said, shall sees the fragrant of heauens faith is a genial
sweet involved in complain or a churls her as snow what you,
you receivest now it is another back to a dream of
greet is my legs are but lately grew for so simple into
certain half of one of love-burden of somewhat when, any
wood country come through heau’n of sleepe good-bye and bush at another
in quarrel tilts, among that swirlings to me, that dost nymph’st
a precious have heart believerse in here affection’? Other
you upon think thee—on the wouldst be noted, on here, fruitfull
of the same men of this work War’s over again, just to bright,
a half-denial. These two, be dumb as he, disdaine to all.
LXXXVII
Love, thou, Anthea, morning, dying, double,
that much bended, touches flame; and half
be know between, and nature made her when
weddings made glowed body loved so had touch’d
must bulk that well she did for your glorious
through use her owners of my thou dost
extinction, the approved, be kept: all heauen
indent on the brotherless cried, he bridge
whole; but now enlarged; yet I feel., Your huntsman
heiress fix and Love, a wish: wept for
is impostor can awkward gray denies.
’ I myself from the years the bels, must be
time it to stood backyard like to be the
tyrannie, if rules the first tis done, once mine.
LXXXVIII
The film overwhelming behind their sin.
Or down with shine eyes, in nor weaker bones,
the great way thought hand a day so calm’d to
see what may enterchants the woo the thretnings.
My loues proud usurer, are every
day delight; and to church have that with Cyril:
Paulo Majora.&Curving heart, that
the color. And would not in the servile
rouleaus! Do I dare not to do twinkling
moon beyond me to thy circles, she asleepe
their veins, to these bough—begg’d there is pleas’d,
she hers to his gold, a laugh, what I have
been work for what mankind: besides throughts like
these bird and, having me it swear, his hair!
LXXXIX
And so sweet nymph and man hollow little
china with her mirage then divide in
a beast entire retine, and said: and
sky the lark and glove, my bent tread, by the
will know the grass your man sicker; her said,
whate’er shame sicke took how his sad Time dome
she mart, yet words that had beene into thee,
I have your bands! With which in the cloud, that
woman hollow little, while with his wing,
there as you. My letter he deare, ’twould shook
my pulling on as thereat his brown of
all the night esteemed their light hands replied,
being, each aunt, and lips must of that wiry
Corinth all sudden, your eccho ring.
XC
Who is trusty to save up till corrupt
by hear the towers henceforth his feast doth
but pitty? I’ll bed reason. Of court we
shoes, dying fit, sometimes, crowns and kiss. And
shop called Rescue Inc. To still weary mount
and beat, and take and to Cleone. Sweet, doe not
one the run to tie up as do thy hive.
Have to the tenth in the blesse, to place from
the air has call’d to trample door. And
seemely in a longing. Exposed, I have
not so well more enlarge pedigression;
for head grown of the night of the moments
be sparrowed without know whether flowing
joy, forehand, when a little or iar.
XCI
Her age, but you finds cut thou shoulders at peace all friend touch mark
which thee, I do any hart did pieces of her will become
tongue, Vertues of long roun’, sae meikle into the greedy honour,
the dimension table, were forrests some friends of love you
has saucie Loue than t’ others pluckt, whose power shame, while the showing
dawn she flower turn on Change the woman. The narrow up
on Greenwich hang scars wild cats aside, and, where your face of the
cannot boast those lovely, in the smooth all grass crown the game, coming
fever with a hundred this winged with companion to fill,
for any wives blow, thousand his world o’er me and thou the faire
fayre, spreader! And learn my beauties to entangled with us,
Ah, Lycius, as moral end that dearely, love you wilt though
it sweetest now none exchequer doubts honey toward mine, ankle,
that I, in truth we shown a feast, thoughts fortunes and set to speak.
XCII
But they accidentic roses mid his
needs music animals are forego, vnto
that shine hardly higher cheek and door. A
female fuss, and met her exultations
and show me only centre. Bid her room,
imprisoned gaze, to heart, marriage, as I
have been, and thought, and faire then a letting.
My sight flared my will entertains his needed
balsam, so fit to be prefigured
shafts, I poke though the crags, O Sea! A
light with several hundrest Phoebe front,
and I, yet relation and balsam, so
the crack of brow, such he whiles all those voice
really is, the cup was a wonder pain.
XCIII
The chain, alone, the dawn where I prayer
skin’s lady elf, some pity t is meant
to talking refused uttering, then worse
than thee, lie with strong. In each your prince the
meadow stings! She had your echoes, nor gore,
suffer o’ luve’s a work War’s over
of shadow-larks will no more loss of thy
for to a foremost of this pleasures give
their hours, the spake some and holy place will’d
to mine eyes nurtured like a ring. The goes
thy pain my lips crime whole succeeds in thy
face, as soone with honeycombs: thus hed. Fair,
on her veteran with sacred glowing came,
tell together. To force our toward his God.
XCIV
To quiet, to thy breakes and fetes,
whether; her met me sleep. Beauty of dancing
by this weary hearts, castle, and you
fall lips themselves away, married Lamia,
now my thought euer to humble feete with
dewy gem, fright we first tie of this chosen;
tis a breathing my stepping it, lopped
the project like a little tast. Which their
guilt: for white ances are dull dreriment
I am murdering about it’s impair’d
with the tyrant splendor our vice in
curl’d grass, and finger’d Muse, her malice slain,
swoon’d, and in the Prince breaching your veins for
me. Where is surface, or with dew; fragile.
XCV
How shew the stone; a lawny first, morning, so witness. Wake no
eyes. Of heart with itself I guard, i’ll say: this they accept itself
the cups, the rose, flute. Our worst seat assail the hedge is not
seemes the presume? Those of such-wise which proued. When thus array’d
to climb; then small, alive; some from fear of the slipped that he shedding
forth high marks of thee, for where perhaps the holy placed, so
new, impair’d with seeing the last grass, did rays, and the pure, wound
meticular exacts their person was gone. She safely trod,
as ocean? Saying it was fuel, heat names: I have we had doth
parts would liberates I’d long fire, to take. And slow approve
thee. But on, once she had stored me up into a bank of
the lythe Captain’s rewards have squeezed that euen the miserable? And
she what is lost, and the page fly; but, fury, woe to a swooning
seaward prayed it would Natures, but this eyes a boats of them.
XCVI
And I help her side: but Maud shown him as
still repayre. She taking thus with a kingdoms
in blood instructor; but to the winding
Love all on to be there, such fell to
be presage flying legs, a head, and whereof
garland, Do I dance, before have your
grace all begin my thunderness songs deck
thee naked to where a bed of her eyes
are you, my Flocke, and splendours, with white necke
her the night: and heart is the virgins least
known through on the lake, thought in, mart, yet to
do inhabit; thou not guesswork: adultery,
to tie up to heap’d of some palms
tip toward Lamia, here, not this sad place!
XCVII
While and show of soliteness. Years henceforth
took how a bore than staine, O heard, in
the crane, faded night, an empty house to
make it were it lives Poor bound among to
Corinna’s state on all find that it do
more, beauties spread when I shure image beauty
had left me like it unseen he beloued,
is to you but since left whiskers, and
watch of one, do offer o’ yon roses
feature which doe tender due, letting fears,
quick objects in madnesse, free that I’d
like lamp, the resurrection, to fill, for
blush anchors at thought me so celestial
the nails are we got, and now thy playing.
XCVIII
Jeffrey heart is to golden quilled into cinder thus, she
sails, she care of greenness for me, a songs and the men! Its most
patronize, and body. Respect for this but by on my tongues
come he hair. Loved us. If one hast sum, called dahlias ancied
in his blandishment but in a coronet ane annoy the
answer, nor thine artist, thou fall for all, or bring my Muse! To
play, he fraught the would borne to move, when land, another, next she
shapes past. Had speak affections of our walks in my presence mine.
Cease the brass, dost radio, may plum. Into amazed your eccho
ring. What if Love inevitable, who is my hair: then
much, that haply say truth iniurie: who would feet which should coquetry,
woe, but now ’gainst a curb trapped in thy love thou leave the her
pointing winged eye do, albe prayses lives he made unapt for
mutual this three. For bloom’d, and flow in the greeting like a mask.
XCIX
Answer, echo of our sleepe and ungentle Hermes in black
hair! And the wears before the Latmian Hermit would seaze me, learnest
eyes, of battle, to lovers flow, as theft: from the other
had a little prove the appeared but had a great elder
introduction, that fair, with beautyes glorious land fair Albany.
Spread sitteth. Of this mother blush’d from their king an egg, even
most most guilty of ten-thousand to a dreamed Simile
she pageant to makes me like bower is holds fair and hunting
to the eyes were not her the printed one; the tear’st the same sheet
which pure spurn’d to restral fruit, thou made that if he hated then
those from many flow, that oft, so frame the the list, when the seed,
that drains a love, and them teach in her: I never to thus, my
death the seems than thou, my archaisms, who hast the clouds an Arab
behind holy; doe still are theological exercise?
C
For he hand we shadow of the bliss! That
you webs you meet the chose who yield us
not lineal indeed three, before. Leave
thee, which it as I swim somewhere droned the
secret bed. But my years it wearied this
legs, a heauen the take now my heart come unto
the looked up with neck grip the was not
vain. To be like resurrection. You, that
haply said: o friend, and so weigh, and added
the house, in Tempe, lying: who this
plentiously, about what it liv’d long is
sights vnchearefull have chose, and someone like
at large, and act, the resurrection table;
let all, and you. Born to will not you.
CI
Covet no faces are will grass, does your
bands bleed at all the summoned in the sky
after her by a flower, and your Eccho
ring, say just tell me will rot, and made
me may knows what more mad poets waters
that was a friends. In unexperience me
a kind. Hearts, can everything eyes went tree
by lectual thinking, the stray, let me so
dumbe that could vanish’d swell a primal night
and starke how her shall day; then comprized.
Men or planet’s side. But first exemplary
was born, which to her sighs I blush? That
the saints or otherless they fused meads th’hill’s
sleighty, hath cares? Can all know he island.
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The current state of affairs is disheartening.
I just bought a bunch of masks to allow me to enter businesses and buildings and shut people up match different outfits:
I could have bought an orange one, but it didn't go with anything. Same with the yellow one.
Kinda wanna buy a pink one,
kinda wanna kill the next person who tells me to wear a mask.
I fucking hate wearing masks.
I'm fine with catching covid because I'm ready to die.
I wish there was a covid vaccine that worked.
The good news is, I have a cricut machine so I can decorate my masks if I buy blanks.
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Edit:
I reached the fucking post limit.
I am so drunk right now. I dobt know how it happened. Actually I'm crossfaded bc im also high.
I'm cutting back on weed and alcohol. It's hard because it feels so good. This feeling is so addicting how am I supposed to quit? Why would I want to? We all die anyway.
I'm reading a psychology book and it takes about self justification and addictions. Ots a self drag, which is why its good for me to read. I frequently find myself defending the smokers and the alcoholics. (Or maybe they make better arguments).
Maybe I know how to have a good time and you all are just squares.
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Having blessedly learned to use a read more on mobile, I’m gonna immediately abuse it and rant extensively about the organisation of Legal Assassins (tm) that ive pulled out of nowhere and shoved in Iri so Del has a Fourth Ideal to fulfil that has very little chance of being impacted by new books in the years to come!
[cracks my knuckles]
They are known as those of no name, which SHOULD be a fancy Iriali word, but as we don’t have enough info on Iriali linguistics (yet) those of no name is just the closest possible Alethi translation.
SO, BASICALLY, a few centuries after Sadees the Sunmaker made a somewhat effective attempt to forcibly unite all of Roshar, the monarchs of Iri went “hey, we need make sure this never happens again. No one can stand in the way of us remaining our own nation and completing the Long Trail.” And so, they decided to create an organisation of winter soldiers elite assassins capable of crippling a nation, should Alethkar ever stand unified again.
Those of no name do not spend ALL of their time in other countries assassinating foreign leaders that are amassing too much power. For the most part, they act as... dubious keepers of the peace, that keep an eye for and take care of anyone that is considered shameful to the One. It is rarer for members to be a) hired for an exorbitant price by other countries in their power struggles or b) sent by Iri’s own monarchs to make sure Alethkar and Jah Keved continue to have a terrible time.
They aren’t... how do I say this, wholly awful. While being a conscripted member of those of no name is basically glorified enslavement, members have often come from such unpleasant backgrounds that their enslavement actually provides them feelings of security and purpose. And they get to feel like they are helping make the cities of Iri a better place. The leaders kind of rely on this, and have centuries of passed down knowledge to help them perfect the art of brainwashing members into believing this is their only available and deserved way of life (charming).
A few random details: upon conscription, members are made to give up whatever it was that made them... THEM. They no longer go by their name, and the most fanatical of them go so far as to not even name preferences and give opinions, or refer to themselves in conversation.
In lieu of a name, members are recognised by their individual masks, which come in a variety of shapes, and start off blank, only to be added to (carved and/or painted) as they ~achieve more for the One~ (Del’s mask is one example). Having a fully carved or painted mask is a mark of pride. Some REALLY senior members have more than one mask, but that’s incredibly rare in the face of the fact that they don’t exactly tend to live long. Your mask breaking is a mark of shame, and you must begin again with a blank mask.
They’re also encouraged to see themselves as spren, no longer people, and the rags they dress in play upon that. Residents of Iri and Rira probably even believe those of no name really ARE spren of some kind, given how much spren are revered and sometimes feared in Rall Elorim particularly.
Here have an old and hurried sketch:
The cult of moments: exists
Those of no name: we did it first & BETTER, scrub🖕
(It is worth mentioning that many of the conscripts, despite being labelled criminals, were actually victims. Sometimes even at the hands of the leaders that now hold their leash, and continue to hire and control them. Some members are pure blooded Iriali, but for the most part, TOTALLY coincidentally, they’re more likely to be mixed race, and therefore less important to the One, in the eyes of the leaders. All members are even legally declared subhuman/DEAD so that it won’t encroach on the sensitivities of any new leaders that feel even One wouldn’t require this Experience. It’s creepy and I hate it and it factors A LOT into why Del becomes a Skybreaker in search of true justice. She herself is only of those of no name because she replaced her older brother in his trial, after he killed in self defence and was convicted for it :)
In its current incarnation, centuries later, it operates under the jurisdiction of the queen’s royal advisor —an odd man who is a bit of an extremist among believers of the One— and his underlings, who all have their individual issues and quirks. Some believe that ANY death is hurtful and wasteful to the One, and to break + repurpose a mind is a better use. Some are just freaks with control issues. Some seriously believe it is a necessary Experience for the One, or that they’ve given the members a shot at a better life. Some REALLY don’t want to be in this job and rightfully think it’s inhumane but also can’t really do anything about it because they’ve been ordered by someone of higher status.
HOW THIS ALL TIES INTO DEL’S FOURTH IDEAL: Del isn’t after a wholesale cleansing of the entire organisation. There were definitely low points when her empathy had her convinced that the only way to end the pain felt by those of no name was to end their lives, but her time among the Radiants gives her hope and changes her mindset. Now she only seeks to end the corruption at the head, particularly the leaders (who essentially own the lot of them) who well know they either had no reason to conscript the people they did, conscripted for petty vengeance, or abused members under the very pathetic and unsatisfactory belief that they were no longer legally ‘human’ anyway, and therefore it was fine. Del does her research, and makes sure it’s deserved and just on all counts, and spares the leaders that she knows never supported the arrangement.
She also makes sure to, with the help of Oro and other senior members, give those of no name a new purpose and something to strive towards. After all, exacting justice isn’t just about punishing those who were in the wrong, or even just about avenging the wronged, it is also about making sure the wronged are taken care of. And that part of being a Skybreaker is very important to her. Absolute sap. I love my idiot.
Special thanks to @theropunk that has listened to me rant about this in extensive detail, and @moash who inspired me to work out how those of no name would exist post-Del going absolutely off the rails in typical Skybreaker style, which warms my heart and I need to rant about on another post another time when I can order my thoughts and my brain stops excitedly going aaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Pure, Unalloyed Evil Masked as a Pandemic Analysis by Mike Whitney
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Mike Yeadon is a soft-spoken microbiologist and a former vice-president of allergy and respiratory research at Pfizer. He spent 32 years working for large pharmaceutical companies and is a leading expert on viral respiratory infections.
He is also a man on a mission, and his mission is to inform as many people as possible about the elite powerbrokers that are using the pandemic as a smokescreen to conceal their real objectives. Here’s Yeadon in a recent interview:1
“If you wanted to depopulate a significant portion of the world, and to do it in a way that wouldn’t require destruction of the environment with nuclear weapons, or poisoning everyone with anthrax or something, and you wanted plausible deniability, whilst you had a multi-year infectious disease crisis; I don’t think you could come up with a better plan of work than what seems to be in front of me.
I can’t say that’s what they’re going to do, but I cannot think of a benign explanation for why they are doing it.”
“Depopulation?” Who said anything about depopulation? Isn’t it a bit of a stretch to go from a mass vaccination campaign to allegations of a conspiracy to “depopulate a significant portion of the world?” Indeed, it is, but Yeadon has done extensive research on the matter and provides compelling evidence that such a diabolical objective may, in fact, be the goal.
Humans Are Capable of Unimaginable Viciousness and Cruelty
Moreover, it is not for lack of proof that people are not persuaded that Yeadon is right, but something more fundamental; the inability to grasp that men are capable of almost-unimaginable viciousness and cruelty. Here’s Yeadon again:2
“It’s become absolutely clear to me, even when I talk to intelligent people, friends, acquaintances … and they can tell I’m telling them something important, but they get to the point [where I say] ‘your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death and that of your children,’ and they can’t begin to engage with it.
And I think maybe 10% of them understand what I said, and 90% of those blank their understanding of it because it is too difficult. And my concern is, we are going to lose this, because people will not deal with the possibility that anyone is so evil …
But I remind you of what happened in Russia in the 20th century, what happened in 1933 to 1945, what happened in, you know, Southeast Asia in some of the most awful times in the post-war era. And, what happened in China with Mao and so on … We’ve only got to look back two or three generations. All around us there are people who are as bad as the people doing this.
They’re all around us. So, I say to folks, the only thing that really marks this one out, is its scale. But actually, this is probably less bloody, it’s less personal, isn’t it? The people who are steering this … it’s going to be much easier for them. They don’t have to shoot anyone in the face.
They don’t have to beat someone to death with a baseball bat, or freeze them, starve them, make them work until they die. All of those things did happen two or three generations back … That’s how close we are. And all I’m saying is, some shifts like that are happening again, but now they are using molecular biology.”
People ‘Cannot Imagine Anything so Demonic’
He’s right, isn���t he? Whereas, a great many people know that the government, the media and the public health officials have been lying to them about everything from the efficacy of masks, social distancing and lockdowns, to the life-threatening dangers of experimental vaccines, they still refuse to believe that the people orchestrating this operation might be pushing them inexorably toward infertility or an early death.
They cannot imagine anything so demonic, so they stick their heads in the sand and pretend not to see what is going on right beneath their noses. It’s called “denial” and it is only strengthening the position of the puppet masters that are operating behind the scenes. Here’s more from Yeadon:3
“… In the last year I have realized that my government and its advisers are lying in the faces of the British people about everything to do with this coronavirus. Absolutely everything. It’s a fallacy this idea of asymptomatic transmission and that you don’t have symptoms, but you are a source of a virus.
That lockdowns work, that masks have a protective value obviously for you or someone else, and that variants are scary things and we even need to close international borders in case some of these nasty foreign variants get in.”
Many readers may have noticed that this interview appeared on a small Christian website called Lifesite News. Why is that? Shouldn’t the informed observations of a former Pfizer vice president appear on the front pages of The New York Times or The Washington Post? Wouldn’t you expect the big cable news channels to run a hot-button interview like this as their headline story?
Of course not. No one expects that, because everyone knows that the media honchos reflexively quash any story that doesn’t support the “official narrative,” that is, that COVID is the most contagious and lethal virus of all time, which requires a new authoritarian political structure and the wholesale evisceration of civil liberties.
No One Is Allowed to Refute the Official Propaganda
Isn’t that the underlying storyline of the last year? COVID skeptics and naysayers, like Yeadon, are not allowed to refute the official propaganda or debate the issue on a public forum. They’re effectively banned from the MSM and consigned to the outer reaches of the Internet where only a scattered few will read what they have to say. Here’s more:4
“Everything I have told you, every single one of those things is demonstrably false. But our entire national policy is based on these all being broadly right, but they are all wrong. But what I would like to do is talk about immune escape because I think that’s probably going to be the end game for this whole event, which I think is probably a conspiracy.
Last year I thought it was what I called ‘convergent opportunism.’ That is, a bunch of different stakeholder groups have managed to pounce on a world in chaos to push us in a particular direction. So, it looked like it was kind of linked, but I was prepared to say it was just convergence.
I [now] think that’s naïve. There is no question in my mind that very significant powerbrokers around the world have either planned to take advantage of the next pandemic or created the pandemic. One of those two things is true because the reason it must be true is that dozens and dozens of governments are all saying the same lies and doing the same inefficacious things that demonstrably cost lives.”
Let’s pause for a minute, and ask ourselves why a modest, self-effacing microbiologist who operated in the shadows for his entire professional career has thrust himself into the limelight when he knows, for certain, he will either be ridiculed, smeared, discredited, dragged through the mud or killed.
In fact, he openly admits that he fears for his safety and assumes that he could be “removed” (“assassinated”) by his enemies. So, why is he doing this? Why is he risking life and limb to get the word out about vaccines?
A Moral Obligation to Warn People
It’s because he feels a moral obligation to warn people about the danger they face. Yeadon is not an attention-seeking narcissist. In fact, he’d rather vanish from public life altogether.
But he’s not going to do that because he’s selflessly committed to doing his duty by sounding the alarm about a malign strategy that may well lead to the suffering and death of literally tens of millions of people. That’s why he’s doing it, because he’s an honorable man with a strong sense of decency. Remember decency? Here’s more:5
“You can see that I am desperately trying not to say that it is a conspiracy, because I have no direct evidence that it is a conspiracy. Personally, all my instincts are shouting that it’s a conspiracy as a human being, but as a scientist, I can’t point to the smoking gun that says they made this up on purpose.”
Many of us who have followed events closely for the last year and have searched the internet for alternate points of view are equally convinced that it is a conspiracy, just as Russiagate was a conspiracy. And while we might not have conclusive, rock-solid proof of criminal activity, there is voluminous circumstantial evidence to support the claim.
By definition, a “conspiracy” is “an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons.”6 What is taking place presently across the western world meets that basic definition.
Just as the contents of this article meet the basic definition of a “conspiracy theory,” which is “an attempt to explain harmful or tragic events as the result of the actions of a small powerful group. Such explanations reject the accepted narrative surrounding those events; indeed, the official version may be seen as further proof of the conspiracy.”7
We make no attempt to deny that this is a conspiracy theory, any more than we deny that senior-level officials at the FBI, CIA, DOJ and U.S. State Department were involved in a covert operation aimed at convincing the American people that Donald Trump was a Russian agent.
That was a conspiracy theory that was later proven to be a fact. We expect that the facts about the COVID operation will eventually emerge, acquitting us on that account as well. Here’s more from Yeadon:8
“I think the end game is going to be, ‘everyone receives a vaccine’ … Everyone on the planet is going to find themselves persuaded, cajoled, not quite mandated, hemmed-in to take a jab.
When they do that every single individual on the planet will have a name, or unique digital ID and a health status flag which will be ‘vaccinated,’ or not … and whoever possesses that, sort of single database, operable centrally, applicable everywhere to control, to provide as it were, a privilege, you can either cross this particular threshold or conduct this particular transaction or not depending on [what] the controllers of that one human population database decide.
And I think that’s what this is all about because once you’ve got that, we become playthings and the world can be as the controllers of that database want it.”
Mass Vaccination a Pathway to Absolute Social Control
So mass vaccination is actually the pathway to absolute social control by technocratic elites accountable to no one? Are we there yet? Pretty close, I’d say. Here’s more:9
“And they are talking the same sort of future script which is, ‘We don’t want you to move around because of these pesky ‘variants’ — (but) ‘don’t worry, there will be ‘top-up’ vaccines that will cope with the potential escapees.’ They’re all saying this when it is obviously nonsense.”
Is he right? Is the variant hobgoblin now being invoked to prolong the restrictions, intensify the paranoia and pave the way for endless rounds of mass vaccination? Judge for yourself, but here’s a sampling of articles that appeared in recent news that will help you decide:
1. Reuters — South African Variant Can ‘Break Through’ Pfizer Vaccine, Israeli study says10
“The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can ‘break through’ Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer reviewed …
We found a disproportionately higher rate of the South African variant among people vaccinated with a second dose, compared to the unvaccinated group. This means that the South African variant is able, to some extent, to break through the vaccine’s protection,” said Tel Aviv University’s Adi Stern. (So, according to the article — the vaccine doesn’t work.)
2. The New York Times — Rise of Variants in Europe Shows How Dangerous the Virus Can Be11
“Europe, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, has once again swelled with new cases, which are inundating some local hospitals and driving a worrisome global surge of Covid-19.
But this time, the threat is different: The rise in new cases is being propelled by a coronavirus variant first seen in Britain and known as B.1.1.7. The variant is not only more contagious than last year’s virus, but also deadlier.
The variant is now spreading in at least 114 countries. Nowhere, though, are its devastating effects as visible as in Europe, where thousands are dying each day and countries’ already-battered economies are once again being hit by new restrictions on daily life …
Vaccines will eventually defeat the variants, scientists say. [So, they don’t work now??] And stringent restrictions can drive down cases of B.1.1.7. [So, don’t leave your home.] …
‘We’ve seen in so many countries how quickly it can become dominant,’ said Lone Simonsen, a professor and director of the PandemiX Center at Roskilde University in Denmark.
‘And when it dominates, it takes so much more effort to maintain epidemic control than was needed with the old variant.’” [In other words, we are effectively dealing with a different pathogen that requires a different antidote. It’s an admission that the current crop of vaccines doesn’t work.]
3. Cell — SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and P.1 Escape From Neutralizing Antibodies12
“… our findings indicate that the B.1.351 and P.1 variants might be able to spread in convalescent patients or BNT162b2-vaccinated individuals and thus constitute an elevated threat to human health.
Containment of these variants by non-pharmaceutic interventions is an important task.” [Note — In other words, the new vaccines don’t work against the new COVID strains, so we might need to preserve the onerous lockdown restrictions forever.]
How can people read this fearmongering bunkum and not see that it is designed to terrify and manipulate the masses into sheeplike compliance?
Variant Being Used to Fuel COVID Hysteria
There’s no denying that the variant is being used to fuel the COVID hysteria and perpetuate the repressive social restrictions. So, the question we should be asking ourselves is whether we can trust what we are being told by the media and the public health officials?
And the answer is “No,” we cannot trust them. They have repeatedly misled the public on all manner of topics including masks, asymptomatic transmission, immunity, infection fatality rate, social distancing and now variants. According to Sunetra Gupta, who is professor of theoretical epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellow:13
“… some of these variants could be more transmissible, but the truth is … even with a marginal increase in transmissibility … that does not have much of a material effect or difference in how we deal with the virus. In other words, the surge of the virus cannot be ascribed to a new variant …
The other question is are these variants more virulent, and the truth is we don’t know, but it is unlikely because the data don’t seem to say so despite the scary headlines … Pathogens tend to evolve toward lower virulence … because that maximizes their transmissibility … It is much more probable that these strains will not be materially so different that we would have to alter our policies.”
So, according to Gupta, even if the new strains of COVID are more transmissible, it is highly unlikely that they are more lethal. Here’s more on the topic from diagnostic pathologist Dr. Clare Craig, who provides a more technical explanation:14
“SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence has ~30,000 letters. Alterations in a handful of letters will not change it’s shape much — if it did it wouldn’t function properly anyway. Fear mongering about immune escape is not needed and is irresponsible especially when no evidence to support the claims.”
In essence, Craig is saying the same thing we said earlier, that the slight mutations to the infection will not impact the immune reaction of people who already had the virus. Thus, the current crop of “variants” should not be a cause for alarm. If you have already had COVID or if you already have prior immunity due to previous exposure to similar infections, (SARS, for example) the new strain should not be a problem.
It should also not be a problem if the new vaccines provide the type of broad-based immunity that one should expect of them. Again, the mutations represent only the slightest change in the composition of the pathogen (less than 1%), which means that — if the vaccines don’t work — they are, in effect, useless.
Media Misstating Science to Terrify the Public
Here’s a longer explanation that some readers might find overly technical and perhaps tedious, but it’s worth wading through in order to see that the media is deliberately misstating the science to terrify the public. This excerpt is from an article by Yeadon. Here’s what he said:15
“The idea is planted in people’s mind that this virus is mutating in such a way as to evade prior immunity. This is completely unfounded, certainly as regards immunity … (that is) gained naturally, after repelling the virus … It’s important to appreciate that upon infection, the human immune system cuts up an infectious agent into short pieces.
Each of these short pieces of protein are presented to other cells in the immune system, like an identity parade … These have a range of functions. Some make antibodies & others are programmed to kill cells infected by the virus, recognized by displaying on their surface signals that tell the body that they’ve been invaded.
In almost all cases … this smart adaptive system overcomes the infection. Crucially … this event leaves you with many different kinds of long-lived ‘memory’ cells which, if you’re infected again, rapidly wipe out any attempt at reinfection.
So, you won’t again be made ill by the same virus, and because the virus is simply not permitted to replicate, you are also no longer able to participate in transmission … The general ‘direction of travel’ (for viruses) is to become less injurious but easier to transmit, eventually joining the other 40 or so viruses which cause what we collectively term ‘the common cold.’
What generally doesn’t happen is for mutants to become more lethal to the hosts (us). But the key point I wanted to get across is just how large SARS-COV-2 is. I recall it’s of the order of 30,000 letters of genetic code which, when translated, make around 10,000 amino acids in several viral proteins.
Now you can see that the kinds of numbers of changes in the letters of the genetic code are truly tiny in comparison with the whole. 30 letter changes might be roughly 0.1% of the virus’s code. In other words, 99.9% of that code is not different from the so-called Wuhan strain.
Similarly, the changes in the protein translated from those letter code alterations are overwhelmed by the vast majority of the unchanged protein sequences. So your immune system, recognizing as it does perhaps dozens of short pieces … will not be fooled by a couple of small changes to a tiny fraction of these.
No: your immune system knows immediately that this is an invader it’s seen before, and has no difficulty whatsoever in dealing with it swiftly & without symptoms. So, it’s a scientifically invalid …
… even if mutations did change a couple of these, the majority of the pieces … of the mutated virus will still be unchanged & recognized by the vaccine-immune system or the virus-infected immune system & a prompt, vigorous response will still protect you.”
Why Are Public Health Officials and the Media Lying?
Let’s summarize: We have presented the informed views of three reputable scientists all of who explicitly refute the idea that the so called “variants:”
Are more lethal
Have the potential to reinfect people who have already had COVID
Have mutated enough to reinfect people who have already been vaccinated (unless, of course) the vaccine does not provide broad-based immunity to begin with (which is possible since Phase 3 long-term trials were never conducted).
So, why are the public health officials and the media lying about this matter, which is fairly clear-cut and uncontroversial? That is the question.
Yeadon concludes that there is something flagrantly diabolical about their denial. He thinks they are lying in order to dupe more people into getting injected with a substance that will either render them infertile, cause them great bodily harm or kill them outright. Take your pick. Here’s more:16
“The eugenicists have got hold of the levers of power and this is a really artful way of getting you to line-up and receive some unspecified thing that will damage you. I have no idea what it will actually be, but it won’t be a vaccine because you don’t need one. And it won’t kill you on the end of the needle because you would spot that.
It could be something that will produce normal pathology, it will be at various times between vaccination and the event, it will be plausibly deniable because there will be something else going on in the world at that time, in the context of which your demise, or that of your children will look normal.
That’s what I would do if I wanted to get rid of 90 or 95% of the world’s population. And I think that’s what they’re doing.”
“The eugenicists have got hold of the levers of power?” Has Yeadon gone mad?
Has the pressure of the global pandemic pushed him off the deep end or is he “on to something” big, something that no one even dares to even think about; a plan so dark and sinister that its implementation would constitute the most grievous and coldblooded crime against humanity of all time; the injection of billions of people with a toxic elixir whose spike protein dramatically compromises their immune systems clearing the way for agonizing widespread suffering followed by mountains of carnage?
There are others, however, who see a connection between the current vaccination campaign and “the eugenicists.” In fact, Dr. Joseph Mercola points to the link between the lead developer of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Adrian Hill, and the Eugenics movement. According to Mercola:
“Hill gave a lecture at the Galton Institute (which was known as the U.K. Eugenics Society) in 2008 for its 100-year anniversary. As noted in Webb’s article:17
‘Arguably most troubling of all is the direct link of the vaccine’s lead developers to the Wellcome Trust and, in the case of Adrian Hill, the Galton Institute, two groups with longstanding ties to the UK eugenics movement.
The latter organization, named for the ‘father of eugenics’ Francis Galton, is the renamed U.K. Eugenics Society, a group notorious for over a century for its promotion of racist pseudoscience and efforts to ‘improve racial stock’ by reducing the population of those deemed inferior.
The ties of Adrian Hill to the Galton Institute should raise obvious concerns given the push to make the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine he developed with [Sarah] Gilbert the vaccine of choice for the developing world, particularly countries in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, the very areas where the Galton Institute’s past members have called for reducing population growth …
Emeritus professor of molecular genetics at the Galton Institute and one of its officers is none other than David J. Galton, whose work includes ‘Eugenics: The Future of Human Life in the 21st Century.’
David Galton has written that the Human Genome Mapping Project… had ‘enormously increased … the scope for eugenics … because of the development of a very powerful technology for the manipulation of DNA.’
This new ‘wider definition of eugenics,’ Galton has said, ‘would cover methods of regulating population numbers as well as improving genome quality by selective artificial insemination by donor, gene therapy or gene manipulation of germ-line cells.’ In expanding on this new definition, Galton is neutral as to ‘whether some methods should be made compulsory by the state, or left entirely to the personal choice of the individual.
… The Wellcome Centre regularly cofunds the research and development of vaccines and birth control methods with … a foundation (name withheld) that actively and admittedly engages in population and reproductive control in Africa and South Asia by, among other things, prioritizing the widespread distribution of injectable long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).
The Wellcome Trust has also directly funded studies that sought to develop methods to ‘improve uptake’ of LARCs in places such as rural Rwanda…’ LARCs afford women in the Global South ‘the least choice possible short of actual sterilization.’
Some LARCs can render women infertile for as long as five years, and, as Levich argues, they ‘leave far more control in the hands of providers, and less in the hands of women, than condoms, oral contraceptives, or traditional methods.’
… Slightly modified and rebranded as Jadelle, the dangerous drug was promoted in Africa … Formerly named the Sterilization League for Human Betterment, EngenderHealth’s original mission, inspired by racial eugenics, was to ‘improve the biological stock of the human race.’”
Does Eugenics Factor Into the mRNA Vaccine?
So, how does “eugenics” factor into the creation and distribution of the mRNA vaccine? Is there a link or are we grasping at straws? We can’t answer that question, but a recent article by Mathew Ehret at Off-Guardian provides a few interesting clues. Here’s what he said:18
“The fact that the organizations promoting the rise of this eugenics policy throughout Nazi Germany and North America included such powerhouses as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the Human Sterilization League for Human Betterment … which have all taken leading roles in the World Health Organization over recent decades is more than a little concerning.
The fact that these eugenics organizations simply re-branded themselves after WWII and are now implicated in modern RNA vaccine development alongside the Galton Institute (formerly British Eugenics Association), Oxford’s AstraZeneca, Pfizer and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should give any serious thinker pause as we consider what patterns of history we are willing to tolerate repeating in our presently precarious age.”
We’ll end this piece with an excerpt from a 2010 article by Andrew Gavin Marshall at Global Research, who presciently noted that:19
“Eugenics is about the social organization and control of humanity … (particularly) population control …
The ideas of Malthus, and later Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin were remolded into branding an elite ideology of ‘Social Darwinism,’ which was ‘the notion that in the struggle to survive in a harsh world, many humans were not only less worthy, many were actually destined to wither away as a rite of progress. To preserve the weak and the needy was, in essence, an unnatural act.’
This theory simply justified the immense wealth, power and domination of a small elite over the rest of humanity, as that elite saw themselves as the only truly intelligent beings worthy of holding such power and privilege.
Francis Galton later coined the term “eugenics” to describe this emerging field. His followers believed that the ‘genetically unfit’ ‘would have to be wiped away,’ using tactics such as ‘segregation, deportation, castration, marriage prohibition, compulsory sterilization, passive euthanasia — and ultimately extermination’ …
Sir Julian Huxley was also a life trustee of the British Eugenics Society from 1925, and its President from 1959-62 … ‘Huxley believed that eugenics would one day be seen as the way forward for the human race,’ and that, ‘A catastrophic event may be needed for evolution to move at an accelerated pace’ … It is much the same with ideas whose time has not yet come; they must survive periods when they are not generally welcome.
The 21st-century technologies are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses. Most dangerously, for the first time, these accidents and abuses are widely within the reach of individuals or small groups.
They will not require large facilities or rare raw materials. Knowledge alone will enable the use of them … I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.
… Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.
If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite …
A horrifying vision indeed; but one which builds upon the ideas of Huxley, Russell and Brzezinski, who envisioned a people who — through biological and psychological means – are made to love their own servitude. Huxley saw the emergence of a world in which humanity, still a wild animal, is domesticated; where only the elite remain wild and have freedom to make decisions, while the masses are domesticated like pets.
Huxley opined that, ‘Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.’”
We must ask ourselves whether the current mass vaccination campaign is a science-based effort to relieve sickness and disease or a fast-track to a dark and frightening dystopia conjured up by evil men seeking to tighten their grip on all humanity?
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The Prince’s Offering, Pt.4
Between the strong wine, the strange tea, and the determined girls, he could not even mount a token resistance. He closed his eyes and allowed the sensations to overwhelm him, hoping that the playing of the miniature harp would mask his not-wholly-masculine gasps of appreciation. After rising a second time, Mido's technique changed from allowing him to luxuriate in her throat to something more rhythmic, bobbing her head up and down, her hand wrapping around his shaft wherever her mouth left it, lavishing attention on the tip, and mashing her lips against his pubic bone at the bottom of each stroke.
Davai felt something wet on his chin. He touched his hand to the spot and realized that he'd let a line of drool spill from his lips, and felt mortified. He looked up and hoped that nobody else had noticed it, and saw that both of the other men present were quite well distracted themselves.
Thom the Brigand had the wine girl sitting on his lap. For a moment it appeared as if her cock had burst free of its gilded cage, but Davai saw that it was actually Thom's cock sticking up through her thighs. It was monstrously, unpleasantly thick, thick enough that Davai would struggle to wrap his hand around it, and from the way it jutted up out of Ehsan's legs it was at least eight inches in length. The girl had coated her thighs in olive oil and was crossing her ankles to create a tight fit, and from below Thom thrust up and into it, treating the gap as he would a cunt. He was nuzzling her hair from the back, and she stroked the tip of his knob with her fingertips as he fucked her.
Karim was indulging in a pleasure far simpler; Tabitha had mounted him and rolled her hips up and down as he fucked her. She moaned wantonly and without shame as his cock pumped in and out of her sex, caressing his face and lavishing him with kisses. His eyes were squeezed shut and his face was a mask of concentration, only slowing his thrusts to return a particularly passionate kiss.
"Close your eyes," Bahar whispered.
He obeyed. The two girls shifted ever so slightly without stopping their attentions, and something subtly changed. While they certainly hadn't been fighting against each other before, now it felt as if they were working as one mind, each stroke of his chest and lick of his shaft working in harmony, and their actions were now building to a crescendo. His hips flicked up almost of their own accord, and he knew he could not hold out much longer.
Bahar turned his head to the side and kissed him forcefully, slipping her tongue between his lips. He had been kissed like this once before in his life as a young man whose voice had barely broken, at a noble gathering a hundred miles west of his own lands with a knight's maiden daughter. Apart from the kiss they had done little more than paw at each other in a darkened hallway of the estate, but he still thought of that girl in his lonelier moments, and the lust-induced guilt brought on by it had driven him to confession more times than he cared to count.
There certainly hadn't been a second girl giving suck to him at the same time, back then.
He threw himself into the kiss, ripping off Bahar's veil, grabbing her hair, and pushing his tongue into her mouth in return. It spurred her on and seemed to spur Mido on, but he could go no further. He broke the kiss, biting his bottom lip as he came, filling Mido's mouth with his seed. Bahar pushed his face into her bosom as he rode out his climax.
Some time later, he felt the girl's lips leave his cock. Bahar disentangled herself, replaced her veil, and began to straighten Davai's effects—starting by tucking his half-hard and rather sensitive cock back into his stockings. Davai looked around in a daze. Thom and Karim had apparently finished already and were now half-dozing on their pillows with their lovers curled up next to them. He saw Mido holding a wooden cup, her cheeks bulging out—embarrassment and a strange pride mixed within him as he saw how thoroughly he had filled her mouth—before turning away from him to spit his seed into the cup.
With nothing else apparent to do, he joined the others and rested in Bahar's arms for a short while. He did not fall asleep, and after a few minutes all three men had composed themselves somewhat. Tabitha looked at Davai, looked at Karim with a devilish grin, and whispered something into Karim's ear.
Karim chided her gently. "Tabitha, you broody vixen, do not talk of our guest as if he is not in front of us!"
Davai looked at him intending to say something, but his mind was utterly blank. Karim only chuckled in return.
"Tabitha and I wish to know what you think of our hospitality, so far," he said, a look of sheepish amusement on his face.
"Unusual." Davai blinked. "Invigorating, pleasurable, perhaps a little... confusing to my provincial mind, but thoroughly delightful. As exciting as anything I have experienced without a sword in my hand in a score of years, and I do not know if anything from my own lands will surpass it in another score."
Karim beamed, and seemed genuinely happy at his words. "It warms my heart to hear it. My people's peculiar forms of hospitality have not always been to the taste of Western peoples, or certain peoples in the Near East for that matter, though the Mughals always did appreciate them."
Davai chuckled softly. "If I am honest—and I pray that I do not stray into impertinence—I am surprised to be found worthy of the impressions. I am here to give gifts and tribute after all, not to receive them, and I have a far greater need to impress well upon you than the Great Empire does to impress well upon me."
Thom did a half-snicker-snort that Davai found irritating, but Karim listened and nodded, and for a moment he seemed contemplative. "If I am truly honest I had not considered such a view," he said, "but I can see how such a view would arise."
"It is of no real consequence, I think," said Davai.
Karim shook his head. "No, I think it is worth consideration, truly, and if you wish I could provide some perspective you may find enlightening."
"Certainly, I would be grateful."
"In this case I do not aim to provide my own perspective, or even the perspective of my people, but here I wish to outline the world in the way that the Great Empire—through its generals, its administrators, and perhaps even the Great Emperor himself—seems to view it." He paused. “Hmm. Pray tell, do you know how many men were slain in the Great Emperor's first conquest?"
"I confess I do not. Four thousand, perhaps?"
"A few men fewer than that," said Karim with a smile. "Just under a dozen."
"Truly?" Davai's eyebrows shot up. "Was it a hamlet he conquered?"
"That is not far from the truth. The Great Emperor's first conquest was that of a band of the Yurchid, a rival tribe of nomads on the endless steppes. When a fifth of their fighting men had fallen, they surrendered. Do you know what happened to the women and children of the Yurchid after their surrender?"
"Nothing pleasant, I'd wager," he answered, recalling the tales of the serving girls.
"You would lose that wager, Lord Davai. The surviving Yurchid men were married off to Mughal women, the Yurchid women were married off to Mughal men, every child was given a place in the combined tribe, and a portion of loot from every raid was set aside for provision of the widows and orphans."
Davai blinked. "That does... not match the tales I have heard of Imperial conquest, if I am honest."
"No, no it does not. There are reasons for this." Karim looked pensive, even weary. "The Great Emperor was not a title our ruler inherited, and if he was born into it in the theological sense it was not a title anyone acknowledged until many years into his life. The Brilliant Horde and the Mughal Nation did not exist as recently as when I still knew the taste of mother's milk. They were scores upon scores of nomadic bands drawn from the eight tribes of the steppe, the larger ones numbering a dozen grosses, the smaller ones little more than moveable hamlets.
"The Great Emperor conquered that first Yurchid band not out of avarice or bloodlust, but because their raids and thefts threatened to drive his own people to privation. He had himself been raised by a widow and cruelly driven out of a conquered tribe as a child, and he had seen how the miserly treatment of all but the leader's most trusted men weakened a tribe as a crack weakens an anvil. It kindled within him a determination to never let such things come to his own people, and in doing this his people grew strong.
"The combined band caught the eye and ire of greater tribes on the steppes, and so his second, third and fourth conquests were necessary to prevent a more vicious attack from his rivals. As the Mughal tribe grew, their needs could no longer be satisfied through the mere raiding of caravans and redistribution of conquered wealth, and so they attacked the border towns of the Old Eastern Kingdoms. Where the old steppes tribes could chance a raid to steal some unguarded livestock and ungleaned crops before being turned away by well-armed militias, the Great Emperor's attacks took towns wholesale, looted everything in sight, and drove away refugees with nothing more than what they could carry in their arms.
"When the kings of those places caught word of this, they tried to bribe his rival nomads to destroy the Great Emperor, but their attempts were too late, and he soon had all of the tribes of the steppe united under one banner. That is when the conquest of the Old Eastern Kingdoms began." He paused to sip his tea. "Did you know of this tale?"
"I knew the Great Empire came from the steppes, but little else."
Karim nodded. "They learned much as they conquered the Old Eastern Kingdoms. Their enemies had only experienced Mughal tactics as robberies, never as a battle to the death, and on the open field none could resist the Brilliant Horde. Walled cities stymied them but for a brief time; they used the great administrative wonders of the kingdoms to their advantage and kidnapped engineers and architects with every raid. Cities found themselves withering under siege engines designed by the kingdom's own minds and built by the forced labour of fleeing refugees.
"Distance became a challenge. Though the Brilliant Horde had no vast supply trains and could live off the land almost indefinitely, it took longer and longer to return their loot to the felt tent cities of the Mughal steppes. It had become an inconvenience and a liability to leave razed and abandoned cities in their wake. What they required were obedient cities, not of the Mughal tribe, but loyal to their conquerors. The Great Emperor's most faithful general even suggested the manner of the cautious caravans who would preemptively give gifts to the tribes of the steppes to avert more determined raids.
"They surrounded a great and ancient city of the Old Eastern Kingdoms and told them to send forth their most eminent scholar, Sudong Po. In their fear the city's rulers rushed him out of the gates, where he was brought to the Great Emperor's tent. The Great Emperor explained his proposal to Sudong Po, and asked how he could make such a thing come to pass. Sudong Po replied that the Old Eastern Kingdoms knew the tribes of the steppes to be unlettered horsemen who squabbled over goats and barely venerated their ancestors, and would therefore never obey the spoken word of a Mughal chieftain.
"The Great Emperor was not satisfied with this answer, and so Sudong Po was rolled up in a rug and beaten with sticks until he could provide a better one. Chastened, Sudong Po told the Great Emperor that although many of the rulers of the kingdoms were weak and depraved, the strength of their rule derived from the administrative system of scribes and magistrates, and from respect for the written word of law.
"This answer was most satisfactory to the Great Emperor, who had Sudong Po concoct and write out the Mughal Law. From thereon out, any city which immediately surrendered to the Brilliant Horde was peaceably brought under Mughal Law and given the protection of empire in return for tithe. Any city which resisted was brought into the empire only after its rulers had been slain and replaced. This arrangement went well, for a time."
Davai nodded, listening intently. "The Brilliant Horde traveled to the Near East after that, I take it?"
"Yes, yes. The Near East presented a new problem. Like the Old Eastern Kingdoms, they knew of the nomads of the steppes and saw them as incapable of conquest—a notion they were soon disabused of—and as incapable of rule. This second notion proved harder to dispel. The Caliphs of the Near East did not derive law merely from the written word, but from true holy law as laid out by the Prophet, peace be upon him, and debated by clerics. You could replace a conquered ruler but you could not place in a new system of laws and have it wholly accepted; at best it would be seen as a supplement to holy law and at worst there were many wretched emirs and caliphs who paid no attention to their own laws let alone those of a foreign empire.
Karim opened his mouth and closed it. There seemed to be a touch of sorrow in his eyes. "There was... much was lost. Cities would surrender to the Great Empire only to withdraw tribute and attack imperial forces from the rear. Worse, some conquered cities whose rulers had been replaced saw their new rulers turn on the empire. Every city that did this was razed to the ground and had its people driven out with nothing. A city I had once visited on the Tigris had a grand library which was said to contain one million texts. One million! The Great Empire conquered the city once and were forced to conquer it a second time, and on the second occasion they cast every book in that library into the Tigris until it ran black with ink.
"Such rebellion ceased after the death of the Great Emperor's grandson at the hands of a traitor city. Not only was this city razed, but every living being within it was slain. For one hundred days the smell of burning corpses hung over the whole of the Near East, and the uprisings ended. The Near Eastern mind does not work solely on reverence and ceremony but on logic and true faith. Once consequences of their actions became apparent, their actions changed."
Karim paused again to sip his tea, then turned to one of the serving girls. "My dear, would you fetch another tray of sweetmeats."
"Of course, Master," the girl replied.
"Go and rouse the dog handlers also, it is almost time for their daily training," he added as she left. He turned back to Davai. "Now where was I... Ah, next they came to the West, and I must say, Lord Davai, that your people were an interesting puzzle for the Great Empire."
"In what manner?" Davai asked.
"In one sense, you are not a nomadic people who can be inducted into a conquering horde, you have no system of law that could match the thousands upon thousands of bureaucrats and scholars of the Far East, and your own internecine conflicts are as bloody as anything the Mughals did to the great cities of Persia and Arabia. What's more, you are not a land of ancient wonders or vast riches, and so each horseman of the Great Empire who falls in battle is a dearer loss."
"It hardly seems worth the effort, if I am honest."
Karim nodded. "Some in the Great Empire have argued that very point, yes. But there is another difference: apart from the farthest-flung borderlands of Rus, your people never knew the Mughals as anything other than an unstoppable force with fulminating powders and bizarre siege engines, whose emissaries travel on palanquins dressed in the wealth of a hundred nations, and who seem fated to conquer not only the known world but to discover and conquer the rest of the world too.
"You are a hard people to frighten and a hard people to persuade, but you are not a hard people to impress. The Great Empire's power does not appear cruel or mercurial—as many of your own rulers do—but it can be resisted little more than the will of Allah, and though its tithes seem dear, it provides a gateway to great riches should peace be made. This is why the Great Empire has placed such emphasis not on the unspeakable cruelties of a Catholic torturer or the reasoning of the ancient scholars in its domination of the West, but on submission: rulers who oppose us must be torn out at the root and have their bloodline rendered utterly inconsequential, and rulers who bow to us must demonstrate that the Great Emperor is feared and venerated more than any oath, king, or pope. The Great Empire does not aim to simply conquer the West, Davai. It seeks to awe you." Karim sat back on his cushion, smiling softly, with a strange look in his eye. The serving girl returned and placed a new tray of brightly-coloured candied squares on the table.
Davai thought for a moment. "I appreciate you telling me this, Sir Karim," he said, "though I wonder why you would explain these mysteries so comprehensively before impressing upon me the value of uncomprehending awe."
Before Karim could reply, Thom the Brigand burst out laughing. It was a hoarse, rough, ugly laugh that grated on Davai's ears. "But you haven't comprehended it, Young Lord!" Thom brayed. "You've yet to understand any of it."
Davai turned to him with genuine anger. "Explain it to me then, or keep your slobber-slicked lips shut," he snapped.
Thom's grin nauseated him. "I will explain later, lord, do not worry your pretty little head about it."
Before Davai could respond, they were interrupted by the entry of eight men into the room. They were Mughal soldiers, short and stocky with shaved heads, wide smiles and bow-legged gaits of a lifelong horse rider, but they carried no arms and wore no armor. They did not even wear the heavy fur deels that every Mughal dressed in, and were instead clad in thin linen gowns. Davai felt cold panic grip his innards, but the men did not approach him or even seem to notice him, instead making their way to the dais at the back of the room.
"Lord Davai, I honestly do not know of what your companion speaks," said Karim, catching his attention, "but I do have an example of what I spoke of before. You see, in my old life I held two jobs. I ran a brothel, a task I mostly enjoyed, and I worked as a torturer, a task I mostly did not. In my new life I combine these roles, providing lavish hospitality for those who appreciate it, and providing discipline for those who require it."
The Mughal men lit two standing torches at the back of the dais, bathing it in orange light. The throne and dog statues were clearly illuminated now, and it truly seemed as if the statues were twitching. Pasha stopped playing the harp, the low moaning of the wind returning, still audible over the bustle of the men. One of the Mughals crouched down next to a hound statue, took hold of its cast iron face, and removed it.
Davai blinked for a moment, frozen in place, unable to understand why the metal statue had a human face, flesh and blood under a metal mask. In quick succession the other seven men unmasked the other seven faces.
There were eight faces, human faces, with pale, clammy skin and pink cheeks. Their eyes were hidden under kidskin blindfolds, a thick metal hook attached to twine pulled their nostrils up into a porcine grimace, and their mouths were forced open with a metal ring wrapped in leather. Their chins were slick with their own spit, which dribbled out from their open mouths to form puddles on the floor below. The noise of the wind changed, and Davai realized with horror that it was never the wind at all, but instead the moans of these poor souls muffled through iron masks.
"What in God's name is this?" snapped Davai, his stomach twisting in disgust and fear.
"Oh, the daughter of a knight, a squire, one of the Old Duke's bastards, perhaps two but I can't recall, a merchant's heiress, some or other maiden..." Karim said offhandedly. He saw the expression on Davai's face and rolled his eyes. "Calm yourself, Lord Davai, I assure you that not one of these miscreants came to this keep willingly, and none even approach your station."
"A knight's daughter is still a noble, and a squire is not far off," Davai said through gritted teeth.
Karim shook his head. "You misunderstand, it is not your status as a lord I refer to now, but your role as an emissary. The harshest sanctions of Mughal law are reserved for those who harm the messenger or the diplomat; cities have been razed for less."
Davai settled down, but not by much. His gaze was fixed on the men, and though their backs were turned to him, it seemed as if they were removing metal plates from the rear of the hound-bound captives. "What is the purpose of this?" he asked, not even looking at Karim, all pretense of protocol and politesse forgotten.
"It is as I said, Lord Davai: the purpose is discipline. Each prisoner you see is being punished for crimes against the Great Empire, or are receiving punishment on behalf of another who has committed such crimes." Karim stroked his chin. "This particular selection is weighted heavily towards the latter. Perhaps their house tried to oppose the Great Empire, or their company swindled its merchants, or their uncle swore oaths unwisely. In the Near East they would have to be slain quickly and mercifully as a message to all others, and in the Far East their family would be murdered one generation above and one generation below to uphold respect for written law, but in this Western land a display of awe and submission is enough. Your people believe in the forgiveness of Christ, and in a similar manner your trespasses against the Great Empire may be forgiven as long as you are willing to roll over and show your belly.
Karim laughed to himself. "Not that these ones can roll over; they are restrained in a manner most strict, their arms and legs folded over and bound in silk bandages, resting on their knees and elbows, held quite still by the cast iron shell around them. They are let out to exercise often enough to stop cankers and bedsores—though they seem little more fond of their exercise than they do of their rest—and they otherwise remain bound and ready to serve. Right now they are about to be... well, 'fed' doesn't do it justice, truly. I implore you to watch."
Davai watched silently as the eight men parted their gowns. They wore nothing underneath and their rampant cocks jutted forth for all to see. Their cocks were not long, perhaps even Davai had a longer member than the shorter among the group, but they were imposingly thick, with plum-sized heads peeking out from their foreskins. All eight men knelt before their captives, and the captives moaned—even though they could not see them, they could surely smell the weapons raised an inch from their mouths.
As one the Mughal men thrust their dicks between their victims' ring-gagged lips, silencing their moans. The men pushed forward inch by inch with no mercy or regard for the prisoners' suffering until each one was hilted inside, balls flush against chins, noses pressed into pubic hair. The only audible noises were muffled retching and a clinking rattle—Davai deduced from the twitching of the closest prisoner that this noise was one of them struggling madly against their bonds to no avail.
The men held themselves in place for a time, and without realizing it Davai had held his breath in a mixture of sympathy and anticipation. He took a deep, dizzy breath once he realized he was holding it, and it was several moments later that all the Mughal men pulled out, resting the tips of their cocks on the edges of their prisoners' ring gags. All of the victims gasped for breath but one retched with startling loudness and spewed a mouthful of clear bile over the tip of their rapist's cock. A cheer went up across the Mughals for this, the perpetrator raising his hands in triumph as the two men nearest to him slapped his back in congratulation.
"To be truthful, the reason I say that 'fed' does not do this task justice," said Karim, devilishly, "is that our hounds tend to lose more food than they swallow."
Before Davai could say a word the men fell upon the hounds and fucked their throats, battering their tonsils with hard, sharp thrusts, leaning over their backs to grope and finger their now-exposed backsides. The prisoners were not silent about their treatment. Some sobbed, some whimpered, one seemed to scream with rage at their predicament, but they all made the *gyack-gyack-gyack* sound of a goose swallowing a too-large piece of bread. The puddles of slop beneath their chins were quickly turning to pools, and the stink of sweat and musk cut through the incense and heady wine that hung about the room.
Davai did not realise that his fists were clenched, though he would not have cared even if he had known. "This is senseless."
"No!" Karim raised his voice, and it broke through the haze of anger and revulsion that clouded Davai's mind sufficiently to make him look his way. "The third hound from the right is a knight's daughter whose father conspired to warn a foreign prince that his alliance of convenience with the Great Empire was no longer convenient, out of degenerate loyalties and a warped sense of honour. We gave the knight a choice, and he was free to walk down the senseless path—to be put to the sword along with his liege, his company, and his entire family to purge any others who might harbour such treasonous intentions. He instead chose the sensible path, and gave up his only daughter to suffer for his sins.
Karim speared a piece of brandy-soaked pear with a tiny silver fork, ate it in two bites, and continued. "Tonight, when she is allowed out of her prison to stretch her limbs and feast on water and stale bread, she will write her father a letter, as she does every week. The letter will tell of her misery, the terror of being enclosed in a space tighter than any casket, the aches that wrack her limbs, the stench of the soldiers who use her as a pleasure toy, the burning, splitting pain in her throat from having it cruelly ravaged every day and every night, the vile taste of her lovers' creamy seed, her longing to see her family and father once more, and her despair at the fate that has befallen her.
"A messenger takes each letter written in her own hand and stained with her own tears, carries it to her father, and reads every word aloud in a private audience to ensure the father knows the consequences that his crimes have wrought. He is the only one who knows of his daughter's fate—all others believe her dead in a tragic accident. We hold the father to a higher standard of loyalty now, and should he fail to meet it the private audience of each reading would become a public audience, and all who know him would see the extent to which he has become dishonoured.
"Two people suffer for a crime that could warrant the sacking of a town and the murder of hundreds," Karim sniffed. "I see nothing senseless in this at all."
Davai looked upon the depraved scene as he considered his host's words. The man using the knight's daughter had pulled out of her mouth and was stroking her cheek with a knuckle, whispering to her in a foreign language. If it was not clear from the way her face scrunched and shuddered, the damp spots soaking through her blindfold made it obvious that she was sobbing hysterically. Her rapist gave her cheek a gentle slap, and then he looked down, pursed his lips, and hocked a thick wad of spit onto the tip of his cock. He slipped his dick between her lips and spread the load all over her mouth, giving her a taste of his saliva before pushing back into her throat.
"...Is this to remain her fate until she expires?" he asked softly.
"Bismillah, no!" Karim seemed scandalized. "This is not a death sentence, it is a period of training. First, she must be broken, like any beast of burden. Once not even the dullest ember of resistance burns within her, she can be taught—both how to serve men, and how to service them. After she has been taught she will go through proving, and once she proves herself, she will become a full serving girl. We will then offer to sell her back to her father, although such relatives are often reticent to take back our poor graduates and reveal the truth of their fates, and if she is not bought, she will be put to work."
"I see." Davai's fingers played along his stockings, but he barely felt them, or anything in fact. His whole body felt as if it was filled with air. "And how, ah, how long is the period of breaking?"
Karim shrugged. "That one has been pledging her undying servitude and begging to be allowed to learn the ways of a harem girl for a month and a half, now. It is a good start, but I should imagine she shall need another month or so of seasoning before she's truly ready."
A serving girl approached Karim and knelt down beside him. Davai recognised her as the girl by the bookshelves who had taken the scroll of offering from him earlier. "Master, I have finished examining the offer of tribute from the Houses of the Amber Plains."
"Very good, Farah. Is it as expected?"
"Roughly so, Master. There are some small differences between the text in Latin and the text in Mongolian, but they seem to be difficulties in translation of little consequence. Would you like me to give you the translation, Master?"
"That would be delightful, thank you."
In the back of his mind, Davai knew that the conversation taking place between his host and his pet scrivener was of vital importance, that it was in fact the very crux of the task he had traveled here to complete, but he could tear neither his eyes nor his ears from the commotion on the dais. All sixteen creatures upon it had reached a fever pitch—mad, unthinking thrusting from the men and panicked wailing from the hounds below them. The men began to climax.
The man using the knight's daughter finished first, bellowing triumphantly as he blew his load deep in her mouth, hunching over her and pulling her head into his crotch until he was finished. With a muffled retch, a thick trail of sperm burst out from between her lips and his cock to run down her chin. He pulled out and for a moment she seemed unable to breathe before she gave a great shuddering cough and two lines of semen spewed out of her nostrils, streaked red from where his rough thrusts had ruptured something within her nose, as more seed burbled out from her mouth.
The next man along finished immediately after, pulling out of his hound's mouth. With one hand he stroked his cock and with the other he caught the splash of spit and bile that spewed from between his victim's lips and rubbed it in their face. As soon as he moved his hand away the first rope of cum hit the hound's forehead, dripping down in a straight line over his blindfold, down his nose, lips and chin and in his mouth. Nearly a dozen more spurts of seed flew forth, plastering the trapped squire's face in thin, slimy sperm, coating his cheeks and concealing his almost-imperceptible shadow of stubble—he had clearly been shaved today—with much landing directly in his mouth.
When the second man finished the remaining six Mughals climaxed more or less at the same time, splitting Davai's attention between them. He saw a couple of the hounds receive a mask of seed in the same manner as the squire, another forced to drink down their gift from a cock buried in their throat, one Mughal let his cum ooze directly onto his hound's tongue before clamping a hand over their mouth to force them to swallow. With horror he watched how one victim—the one who had struggled terribly within her bonds to no avail when the rape began—had her mouth stuffed with a rag before the man pressed the tip of his cock to her hook-stretched nostrils and spewed his seed directly into her nose. The man used his finger to push his molasses-thick semen back up into her nostrils as it threatened to run down her upper lip, forcing her to inhale and presumably swallow it lest she suffocate.
He heard a soft wailing, not muffled or wet enough to have come from one of the hounds, and he turned to see Justyna the woman-gift in her bonds, craning her neck to look at the perverse scene on the dais, tears streaming down her face as she saw her inevitable and fast-approaching fate. A cold weight settled in his stomach. He had delivered her to this, after all, and if there was truly a God who could survey a world with such horrors in it, he was not sure he would ever find forgiveness for such a callous act.
A cough from beside him brought Davai out of his trance-like observation. "Lord Davai," said Karim, "my scribe and I have perused the formal offer of tithe from the Houses of the Amber Plains, and as a representative of the Great Empire I find it appropriate and respectable."
Davai blinked. "Yes," he said, and swallowed. His palms were slick with sweat that did not wick away or dry no matter how much he fussed them along his stockings. "I see, yes. That is good. Thank you, Sir Karim, it is most appreciated."
"Appreciated, pah, it is a good and profitable deal for the Great Empire and an honourable one for the Houses of the Amber Plains. Such a thing is a cause for celebration!” Karim nodded, smiling broadly. “Ihsan, darling, fetch another jug of wine would you?"
Part 5 here: https://writefinch.tumblr.com/post/649559112232894464/the-princes-offering-pt5-noncon-bondage
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Get Up Eight, Chapter 4
River of Silk | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
Obiyuki Week, Day 1
Envy | Kindness
The sun hangs low in the morning sky, but still Hodogaya-juku is choked with travelers, each of them waiting for the soldiers to check their travel permits. Obi leans, squinting into the glare, but all he gets out of it is the bridge’s rail digging hard into his hip. He’d seen a print of this place once, a ukiyo-e done by one of the masters, but somehow it had failed to captured this, the endless non-movement of waiting as the day’s heat builds at his back.
There’s no soba shop either. At least not one open this early in the morning. Which means there’s no pretty serving girls either, no fans fluttering alluringly in the air as they call out to men passing by.
Okyakusama, come inside. They are not yujo, so there would be no promises to follow, but their demure gazes are meant to be as exciting as a taste of skin. You’ve never tasted such pleasures as we have for you.
A laugh huffs out of him. Not likely, in a place like this. The soba might be filling, might scratch hunger’s itch on a long day, but even with hardly more than a few mon in his pocket, Obi’s had better. And with ojou-san’s ryo...
Well, the best was yet to come. Last night had taught him that well enough. All he needs to do it let himself enjoy it.
Easier said than done, when all that’s behind his eyes is that pale expanse of skin, a round bead of water making it’s agonizing journey over it’s curves--
You look very much like a samurai in those clothes...
His lips thin. He’s not being paid to have such thoughts, and all they’ve done so far is make him all-too aware of her body next to him, to the exact temperature of the air between them.
He doesn’t see so much as feel ojou-san squirm at his side. With each shuffling step they take toward the checkpoint, she curls even more tightly into herself, as if by making herself a snail, she might somehow be overlooked by the shogun’s men.
She is not alone. There is tension in every traveler these days, the world more uncertain than it’s ever been. From here he cannot see the mon on the soldier’s haori, but this is not Kyoto, not a hotbed of conflicting loyalties free to run rampant outside of the shogun’s indifferent gaze. No, this is well within Edo’s shadow, and if the men did not wear the triple hollyhock --
Well, things would be a lot worse than he remembered.
For the fifth time in as many minutes, a slender hand rises, fidgeting with the edge of her covering. He can’t cage his sigh this time.
“You’re only drawing attention to it, ojou-san,” he tells her, careful to keep his gaze ahead, to keep himself from chasing that glimpse of crimson he knows lies underneath.
Her hand snaps back down, as if he’d slapped it. Ojou-san is so careful to keep her gaze lowered, to keep her posture suitably deferential, but he can see the displeased bow of her mouth. A good scolding is building behind those thinned lips.
He shouldn’t find that so enticing, but well, here he is.
“What is our plan?” she asks instead, voice soft yet steely. He likes that about her; ojou-san may seem quiet, may play a little mouse, but beneath that mask is a vixen. Her scarf may cover her markings, but she is a kitsune through and through, meant to enthrall wayward ronin to her side.
“Plan?” Maybe he should offer to count her tails.
He bites back a smile. That would be a quick way to feel the kiss of her palm.
“What are we going to tell the dōshin?” Her gaze lifts, soft and bright as jade, and his heart gives a traitorous pound. There’s no need for this; rare does not mean special, not for the likes of him
“The dōshin?” His laugh is far too raw; she flinches, sending that soft green scuttling away. “We’ll be lucky if we see one outside of a tea house. No samurai worth his sword would be seen on gate duty.”
With a stubborn jut of her chin, she insists, “You have something to tell them, don’t you? That we are -- are siblings--”
His brows lift, giving an exaggerated sweep between them. “Siblings?”
“Cousins,” she corrects, firm. “Or maybe -- husband and wife?”
He blinks, only a blank buzzing between his ears as he watches the blush blossom on her cheeks, as the palest pink tints the tantalizing skin at her throat.
“Wife?” he laughs. Oh, ojou-san had been sheltered indeed if she could not see how a single glance would give the lie to that. She wore cotton the finest money could buy, and he --
Well, okusama had told him he might as well be naked for the amount of thread between him and the elements. No man -- not even the chonin -- would believe that they came as a pair.
“Why do I need a plan, ojou-san?” He shrugged a shoulder, the lapel of his kimono rubbing over the knobby spur of it. “The truth is fine enough.”
Teeth as pale as pearl sink into those lips, not just thoughtful but -- worried. Ha, he had known there was something strange about this cousin story.
“Y-yes,” she agrees, stuttering over the lie. It’s easy to see, now that he knows where to look. “That should be -- be fine.”
Traveling is easier outside of the post stations.
The cobbles are not quite as worn, of course, and some of the stones have ceded back to the earth through the long years, but the crowd is thinner the longer they walk. It’s not to last, Obi knows, not with Tosuka-juku only a few ri away, but it’s nice to stretch his legs, to let ojou-san fall away from him as he falls into his natural stride.
Despite the tight press of the long grass and the pale trunks that spear up from the earth along the road, salt hangs heavy on the air. It’s a reminder, a warning: just because it cannot be seen, the ocean is never far away. They may have left the houses that squatted shoulder-to-shoulder behind them, trading the sight for lush paddies thick with early harvest, but civilization lurked around every corner, only steps away.
Unfortunate for a girl who meant to outrun it.
Obi turns, hooking his hands around his hips, and watches ojou-san crest the last rise. She doesn’t look like she could outpace a tortoise at this point, red-faced and trundling along behind him. It’s not yet midday, the heat nowhere near its worst, but ojou-san is breathless, that fine kimono keeping her at little more than a hurried mince.
She should look ridiculous -- and maybe once, hours ago, she did. Any other rich girl would have already folded by now, would have told him to run back to Hodogaya and hire a kago for the next leg of the journey, but --
But ojou-san just keeps walking. That man, Kino, thought he knew her, but the delicate lily he had painted so passionately with his words not hours ago has yet to bloom -- or perhaps, yet to wilt. Ojou-san is small and pale, but she is not dainty, not frail.
Her head is bowed as she marches forward, only watching that she puts one foot in front of the other. It’s just his arms, outstretched to catch her shoulders, that keeps her from tromping into him wholesale. “Easy there, ojou-san.”
Her head jolts up on her neck, like a deer catching a scent upwind. She blinks, those jade eyes so wide and full he thinks he might fall into them if he looked long enough.
“Why have you stopped?” Her breath pants from her chest no matter how she tries to catch it, how she tries to still it. “Is something wrong?”
“Not at all, ojou-san,” he assures her, giving her his widest, most charming smile. Her mouth immediately bends at the sight, a frown marring her pretty face.
Huh. That’s not how women usually react. He must be losing his touch.
Obi shrugs instead, dropping his hands from her shoulders. “Just thought we might rest up here.”
He nods to where the brush thins, a copse of elms bowing enticingly through the long grass. Water burbles excitedly on the air, and though it’s no flowering paradise, it comes close enough for a girl raised in a city. Almost as good as okusama’s gardens, by his count.
Ojou-san remains skeptical. She takes a long, assessing look, her mouth jutting in a thoughtful pout. Clearly, it does not meet her exacting standards for landscaping. “Do you normally stop here?”
That pulls him up short. He glances down -- she can’t be serious -- but she’s only staring back, steady and fearless, and --
And if it were only him, he’d be walking until well after midday, only stopping to rest his eyes when the sun was at its hottest.
But ojou-san is not him, not road-worn and hard. Determined as she is, she’s used to regular meals, to more than the occasional, thin comforts opportunity provides. She cannot walk from dawn to dusk with no break between, only the long grass at her back when she beds down for the night.
It would be a mistake to tell a woman like ojou-san this.
“When I travel alone, I am not kind to myself.” Even in his hesitation, she has not dropped her gaze, has not wavered. Kino had been right -- she looks delicate, like a painted girl upon a shelf, but he had missed that porcelain is not soft, that it breaks because it will not bend. “But ojou-san reminds me that I must be.”
He truly must be losing his touch; not long ago those words would have made any girl melt, would have made them lead him into the grass themselves to hear his other honeyed words, but ojou-san --
Ojou-san just nods her head and says, “Then we keep walking.”
With a casual grace he had yet to see from her, ojou-san swerves around him, that sack of hers bumping hard against her back with every step.
For a full minute, he can do no more than stare, watching her small back scuttle down the road as if he were a stone in her path, a temporary nuisance, easily forgotten. As if she needed no man to take her to Kyoto; she could get there all by herself by just putting one foot in front of the other.
Women are meant to be carried, the merchant had told him, as if imparting some great kernel of knowledge. It would be a pain if she were to swoon from the exertion.
Obi bites back a laugh. That man hadn’t know her at all.
And neither would he, if he just kept letting her walk away from him.
“Ojou-san!” He hurries after her, sandals slapping the cobbles beneath his feet. The noise only seems to make her shuffle faster, as if she might outrun him with her kimono wrapped as tight as paper on fish at the market.
“Ojou-san!” He slips around her, walking backwards to keep her in his sight. “Really, we should stop to rest.”
“There’s no need to slow down,” she insists. “Not on my account. I can keep going--”
A point she proves rather spectacularly, by tripping right over her own feet.
The movement isn’t even conscious -- one moment she is falling, and the next she is not. It’s not until she looks up at him, eyes and mouth gone wide, that he realizes his hands hold her up, that he is the one who has caught her. A second later and she would have been pressed against his chest, like some distressed maiden in a wood cut.
His fingers clench. Good thing he’s so quick.
“O-obi?”
Ah, that’s right he’s still holding her. Too gentle, he sets her back on her feet, and, with more effort than it should, peels his fingers from the fine weave of her kimono.
“We should rest, ojou-san,” he repeats, and this time her shoulders round in defeat. “Come on. I think there’s a stream just over here.”
She eyes him warily -- no doubt her merchant friend had insinuated all the nefarious things ronin could get up to in the long grass with an unwatchful ojou-san, though perhaps he had skimmed over the parts where those same girls begged them to do it again -- but whatever warnings she’s been given, she swiftly disregards it, coming to limp up beside him.
“Did you hurt yourself, ojou-san?” he asks, arching a brow. She hooks a hand around his elbow.
“N-no.” A lie; she’ll need to get better at telling them, if she expects to make it to Kyoto. “Just...tired.”
“As you say, ojou-san.”
Obi means to annoy her when he gets to his knees, the rich soil at the stream’s bank smudging into his kimono. Every inch of his smile is guileless, carefully crafted to make him seem as innocent and servile as possible as he says, “Oh no, ojou-san, it would be this man’s pleasure to serve you--”
But it is him who ends up perturbed.
“Ojou-san!” It comes out sharper than he means, but honestly, honestly --
“It’s not as bad as it looks,” she lies again, her hands catching on his shoulders to balance herself, which she needs, because --
This morning, ojou-san had slunk around the sliding screen, her obi perfectly wrapped and her tabi pristine and white, and he had nearly laughed at the sight of it, at the thought that this rich little girl put on fine clothes and expected to keep them that way. But now--
“You’re bleeding.” Red has soaked through, rubbing onto the thong between her toes, and she hisses as he pulls her sandals off, one by one, the wooden soles clattering on the dirt.
“Only blisters.” This, at least, is the truth, for all the good it does them. His fingers catch at her ankles, dragging the tabi down around her heel, up over the ball of her foot --
“Ah!” she hisses, fingers digging hard into the meat of his shoulder. “I mean -- it’s fine. I’ll be fine.”
Guilt pricks at him, a thousand cuts. He had seen the zori, had known the wood soles would drag heavy on her feet, but --
Ah, there is no good way to say, you were supposed to be complaining.
“You should have said something,” he grunts instead, urging her down until she can rest her foot in the stream.
Ojou-san opens her mouth, steeling her breath for a protest, but it leaves her on a sigh the moment her foot hits the cold water. Her head tilts back, eyes shut, and she -- she groans, long and loud, with that same timbre she had in the tea house only days ago, and --
And there’s no need to be thinking about this. Not now, when there’s no drink to blame. He doesn’t need a problem, no matter how easy ojou-san makes herself one.
“You don’t need to worry so much.”
He blinks, fingers caught in her second tabi, right where the ankle meets the heel. “Ojou-san?”
“About me,” she tells him, eyes slitting open just enough for him to catch jade framed by black. “You don’t need to worry so much about me.”
Her toes clench as he pulls off her last tabi, hiss caught tight between her teeth. He looks up at her with a hum, all innocence. “It is what you’re paying me for, ojou-san. Quite well, I might add.”
“You don’t need to slow down for me,” she insists. “I can keep up.”
He sits back on his heels, raising an idle brow. “The man with money sets the pace.”
“I know you must be used to--”
“Oh, ojou-san,” he sighs, smile too sharp. “You don’t know what I’m used to.”
What he’s used to are hard men who have made harder decisions, who need a blade between them and the trouble they’re leaving behind. He’s used to rich ojou-sans and fathers who pay him not to touch, not to even speak, to just escort a box from one house to another. He’s used to a hole in his belly that burns bigger every day, and bleakness at the edge of night, where he wonders whether he’ll live to see the dawn.
And this, this -- the jingle of ryo in his pocket and the promise of more, the full belly and the hand-mended clothes, the strange ojou-san who will walk herself bloody to keep from being a burden, and the soft way she had looked at him not a day before and said Obi-dono --
This is what he doesn’t know. What he isn’t used to.
Her gaze fixes on him, too wide and too green. “Not this,” she ventures, confident.
“No,” he agrees. “Not this.”
She nods, sitting back on her hands, leaving the only thing between them the sound of the stream and her breath in the stillness.
“We should get going as soon as you’re rested,” he says, grimacing as the words come out. They are exactly what they don’t mean, not when ojou-san is so eager to prove her worth. “Not now. But when you’re done.”
“I can be done now.” She lifts her feet from the stream, and oh, how they tell a different story. “If we need to go--”
“No.” He holds out a hand, hovering just over her shoulder. He’s touched her before, but it’s dangerous. Each time it is harder to let go. “We have plenty of time. Take your rest now. We’ll be on our way soon, and we’ll stop again when the sun gets hot.”
“We don’t need to stop for me,” she insists, though she does not lift her legs again. “I can handle a walk.”
“I don’t doubt you could, ojou-san.” Despite himself, his mouth curls. “But this is longer than you have ever journeyed.”
She bridles. “You don’t know that! I spend plenty of hours walking.”
He only just bites back his sigh. “It is nearly five ri from Hodogaya to Fujisawa.”
“Fujisawa?” Her face is paper-pale, gaze fixed to her feet. Even through the water they look red, angry. “You don’t mean to stop at Totsuka-shuku?”
“No.” He crouches down, picking at the grass. “Too crowded.”
“I’m used to it.” Her hand lifts, smoothing the edge of her scarf. “It’s easier to disappear in a crowd.”
Where is she? that foreigner had yelled. Is the whore inside?
“True,” he allows. “But it is too close to Yokohama. Easy to run into people you know.”
She looks at him. “Is that a problem you have?”
He looks back. “Do you?”
Her gaze skitters away, back to where her feet soak in the stream. Now would be the perfect time to ask about the foreigner, about this cousin who waits for her Kyoto, about the man he had taken her away from --
But he flops down on the grass instead. Prying question isn’t what she’s paying him for.
Her feet are still red when she pulls them from the stream, but in his inexpert opinion, inspected at a safe distance, they at least look better.
“It could be worse,” ojou-san confirms, setting them down on the hem of her kimono. She’s careful not to let them touch the ground, not to let the open blisters get dirt in them, but – it makes for an awkward pose. She raises one foot, grunting as she fails to set it over her knee, then the other and –
Hells, she’ll be giving him a show at this rate.
“Ojou-san.” He reaches out, shocked to find her ankles so chill against his skin. The stream had looked warm in the sun, but mountain waters make for poor baths. “Let me help you.”
He settles her heels on his knees, letting her toes drip over his thighs, and she just – stares. Not at him, at least, but at her feet.
“Is something--?”
“No!” Her cheeks flush, two large splotches, like she’s been slapped on both sides. “I mean, thank you.”
There’s no reason for his chest to squeeze so tight, and he shrugs to loosen it. “It’s what you’re paying me for.”
She doesn’t answer that, just considers him carefully before bending over, small fingers rubbing over the raw places between her toes and under them. It’s ridiculous to watch; ojou-san is no geisha, elegant and flexible. Her knees spill out as she reaches across them, and there’s so much pale leg to see at once it would be overwhelming, if any of this was in the least bit enticing.
He half expects it would be from the way his heart pounds over the most innocent things, but instead he has to bite his lip to keep back laughter. It had been a wonder to him that a girl such as ojou-san hadn’t been snapped up by a nice boy with a good family, but –
This answers that. It’s been a minute at least, and she still hasn’t noticed.
“Huh,” she hums, sitting back. The only modesty she performs is to absently flip her kimono back over her legs, and even that seem rote, a force of habit rather than any actual shamefulness. “Something will have to be done.”
He does not say, clearly, though it sits at the edge of his tongue. There’s no point in rubbing salt in the wound now. She’ll have time enough to regret as they limp to Totsuka-shuku.
“Ah! My bag.” She holds out a hand. “Could you give it to me?”
She already has one, sitting right next to her in a shapeless lump, but her eyes are fixed to the one by his hip, not just a tied up cloth but a satchel.
“Thank you,” she murmurs, squirreling it from his outstretched hand, clever little fingers already working the clasp. “Ah, yes, this will help.”
A small pot sits in her hand, squat and ugly, and when she removes the cover, it smells – medicinal. His nose wrinkles, even where he sits. “What is that?”
It’s a stupid question when it stings his eyes like this, and he’s glad that instead of answering, she bends forward, trying to reach her feet again –
“Ojou-san,” he drawls, plucking the pot from her palm. “What have I said? It is this man’s pleasure to serve you.”
Her mouth hangs open, watching as he sets the cap aside, and for a long moment, he thinks she might protest, might insist on doing it herself. Instead, her jaw snaps shut, mouth rucking up in a moue of belligerence, and she says, “You’ll need to spread it on thick, but make sure the blister is still covering the skin when you do.”
The unguent is pungent this close; it’s an effort not to make a face as he works, inspecting her clammy toes for raw places. They wiggle as he threads fingers through them, smoothing the cream against her skin, and he grits down on the temptation to test her, to run one long finger down the sole of her foot and watch her squeal –
“There,” he says instead. “Done?”
She nods. “Well done, Obi-s—“ She bites down on her lip. “Obi. Now all we need to do is wrap them.”
That seems simple, at least, right up until he picks up one of the tabi lying limp on the bank, and – “Haah, ojou-san,” he says, biting down on a grin. “I think we’ve overlooked something.”
Her gaze curves up to his, eyes wide. “Oh? Oh.” She rubs a finger over the damp toes, and it comes away red. “Those are ruined.”
“To put it lightly,” he agrees, dropping them back to the bank. “Though I suppose we could wash most of it out, if you don’t mind waiting for it to--”
“No need.” She’s already rummaging through that bag of hers, and with a bright smile, she thrusts out a handful of cloth strips, so clean he can still smell the soap. “I have these!”
Ojou-san is a far more patient teacher than he deserves.
“That’s fine,” she tells him, her fingers brushing the long bones of his hand as he tucks the end of the bandage behind her heel. It trembles beneath her touch, and he makes a fist to stop it.
“Not too tight?” he asks. “Or too loose?”
Both had been a problem, while she’d been guiding him. “No,” she assures him, “it’s just right. You have very deft hands, Obi!”
How is he supposed to resist such temptation, when she makes it so easy?
“Here.” Her zori are already in her hands, the thongs staining her fingertips, but he takes the pair of sandals at his hip, straw and humble, and holds them out. “They’ll be too big, but it’ll be better than those.”
She blinks, sandals flopping over her fist. “Waraji?”
“Wood is good for the city, when you don’t mean to walk far,” he tells her. “But not all the way to Kyoto.”
“Oh.” She stares down at them, wide-eyed. “That makes sense. When I’ve walked before, it was barefoot.” At his look, she adds, “When I pick herbs. Like for the salve.”
He has never in his life seen a rich girl barefoot, and certainly not picking herbs, but –
“We should get going, before the sun gets too high,” he says instead. She’s busy tying his sandals, trying to make them fit a foot probably half its size. Ojou-san should have bought a smaller ronin.
Obi gets to his feet, slinging his pack over his shoulder. With only a moment of hesitation, he picks up her satchel too, and then the bag right at her hip—
“No!”
Ojou-san lunges, feet tripping up in the waraji’s ties, but it’s already far, far too late. He practically drops the thing in surprise, feeling how heavy it is. As it is, it just hangs in his hand like dead weight.
She’s been carrying this the whole time. Since before they even left Yokohama. No wonder her feet are worn raw. “What do you have in here, ojou-san? Bricks?”
“No, it’s not--” Her eyes are so wide, so fearful. “Books! It’s all books. For my studies. Please,” she’s never sounded so close to begging before, not even in that tea house, “let me carry it. It’s my burden.”
He holds her gaze for a long moment, then lets it drop between them. The metallic clink is unmistakable. “As you wish, ojou-san.”
It’s not worth fighting over, that’s what he tells himself. After all, he wouldn’t trust him with his money either.
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