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142 lines
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Poor Ed is Dead
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: Did you hear the news about Edward?
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: On the back of his head he had another face.
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: Was it a woman's face? Or a young girl?
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: They said to remove it would kill him,
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: So Poor Edward was doomed.
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: She was his devil twin.
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: Bound together for life.
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: At night she would speak to him.
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: Things heard only in Hell.
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: Finally the bell tolled his doom.
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: He took a suite of rooms,
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: and hung himself and her from the balcony irons
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: Some still believe he was freed from her.
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: But I knew her too well.
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: I say she drove him to suicide
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: and took Poor Edward to Hell.
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I knew her too well
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: This story isn't about Edward. It isn't entirely about
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: her, either. It is about me and how I knew her so well.
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: And what I know now.
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She was his devil twin
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Were they both devils?
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Things heard only in hell.
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Did he understand words said only in Hell?
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Or did she speak to him but only listeners in Hell could here?
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It makes sense if they were devil twins that they would return together to Hell.
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Bound together for life
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: Does this mean they were bound together until they died?
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: Or does it mean they were bound together for the purpose of being
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: alive? As in being bound together was a prerequisite for either of
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: them to get to experience life? Again, as devil twins they would
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: share this parameter.
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Or a young girl?
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: Why is her age the dominant mystery? What is the range of possible
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: ages we contemplate for her? What about Edward's age? Doe he have a
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: man's face or a young boys?
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Whose head was it anyway?
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: Would she agree that she was on the back of Edward's head or was he on
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: the back of hers?
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I knew her to well
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: Did she speak to me too? What did she say to me? Were these also words
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: heard only in hell? Where am I from?
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Outline
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: I have no idea how writers write outlines for their stories.
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Chapter Ideas
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She spoke to me.
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Meeting her online
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Masked in a game. She 'makes' me. There is another word
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: A word that means she sees through my pseudo and spots me for
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: what I am: an online cross-dresser. Try to find a way to capture
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: the most embarrassing way for that to occur. She catches me but
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: is also able to stop me from running... no, better yet she lets
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: me ditch and run; destroy my online profile; come back again and
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: she makes me all over again. It's a game to her. She's dying
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: laughing.
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Caligula
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: Could even put that game in here. Events could occur in Cali...
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: with plebs and pats and the guild and the necrolord Gaius etc.
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Friendship
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: Somehow after teasing and bullying me online in my favourite
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: game she win me over. She claims my trust or interest at least.
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: I might develop a small hopeless, unrequited crush on her but
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: nothing that overtakes the core attraction: her hints of
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: forbidden knowledge. I guess that her powers and even her
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: existence hint at forbidden knowledge. Knowledge that I
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: desperately desire. Sorcery.
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Meeting Edward.
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: Eventually she will convince me that I need to meet Edward. In
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: person.
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Who is the demon?
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: So it might either be her or Edward. Not sure. The demon can't
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: teach me sorcery on its own. Only the sorcerer can initiate me
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: into lore. Perhaps.
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Does it matter?
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: Check the book for rules, but I doubt they exist, on this.
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So who cares, what about the meeting?
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: Whoever the sorcerer is, only meeting in person will allow me to
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: be initiated. Why am I a suitable candidate? Does it matter?
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What does it cost?
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: Meeting in person means travelling. I can't think of a situation
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: with more awkward obstacles to travelling like this than the
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: present time and place.
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COVID etc.
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Where are they?
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The first place that came to mind was California.
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The second was London.
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: But that out of the way, they could be anywhere. Take some time,
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: think it through. No rush.
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Where was I?
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The first place to come to mind is Halifax. But do I want it?
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Do I want to truk with real places? I kinda do but...
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: Well try Halifax to start with. Will that sink the project? I
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: guess I don't care do I.
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So how about the meeting.
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: Well besides the international travel, during a pandemic, I (the
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: protagonist and narrator) will have a full time job and a
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: family. So it's going to be crazy to come up with a pre-text for
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: this trip. Will it even be possible?
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:
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: Might even require some serious research to come up with a plan.
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: Of course the reason for the visit is as unnaceptable as you
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: would think, so there is a challenge in constructing a ruse, or
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: cover for the trip. Probably only the death of a relative or...
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: hmm so hard to say. Perhaps I'll need to create a fictional
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: family and occupation sufficiently distinct from my own to take
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: out some of the sting of imaginary deception. Hmmmm.
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Learning Sorcery
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: I'm envisioning a really horrific core aesthetic and tone, heavy
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: inspiration from Tazmuir's Magician's Apprentice. Also disturbing
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: sexual overtones and dominance. The sorcerer and demon I meet are
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: overwhelming, possessive, sadistic, utterly dominant. I find myself
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: completely helpless and submissive. I'm aware that they are using me
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: for their own inscrutable ends, that they care less than nothing for
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: me or my soul, but I am completely willing.
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:
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: The knowledge and power they offer is undeniably real, utterly
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: transgressive, unwholesome, destructive and I want it. Getting it
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: is the incidental reward for my submission. Not that it was even
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: offered as a reward. I think I'm drawing on a lot of vampyrism
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: tropes. Teaching someone sorcery is done for similarly selfish and
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: casual reasons to making someone a vampire in mainstream lore.
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:
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: An apt pupil is chosen perhaps without consideration but the bond is
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: permanent, almost anyways and strong. Having initiated me into the
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: lore, they will be bound to me for life, mostly.
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: What else is involved in learning sorcery? One learns to extract
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: power from sacrifices, to adhere to the demonic laws. Then finally
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: one learns the rituals and the routines.
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