girls learn to watch themselves in third person ( closed )

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WHO: Petrana, Julius & Marcus
WHAT: Who has two hands but maybe not for long? This bitch.
WHEN: Current
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Regards this, will discuss voluntary amputation, prosthesis in a generally ableist framing.

The prospect of this conversation is not one that Petrana relishes.

She puts it off, for a short time. She allows it to ruminate, though Wysteria had exhorted her to think carefully but quickly; she mulls over it in the privacy of only her own mind, and comes to no satisfying conclusions. That there are no satisfying conclusions to be had is

unacceptable. Yet: difficult to argue.

If she puts it off indefinitely, the conversation may not be hers to control. Young madame de Fonce is not known for her great patience, and the subject had seemed of such great import to her; to allow it go indefinitely undiscussed, perhaps equally unacceptable. She prefers, she decides firmly, that the first either Marcus or Julius should hear of it be from her, and not anyone else. Finding them to do so is hardly difficult, Vysvolod walking ahead of them on a more sedate outing,

“Madame de Fonce has proposed that I might remove my anchor-shard,” so abruptly that even the dog looks around.