holyironmade: (Tears)
Jeanne ([personal profile] holyironmade) wrote in [community profile] fabledend 2022-10-05 01:02 am (UTC)

I was actually the very one to present it to the others. [Providing the requested confirmation about the "likeness", then listening again. Sad when she realizes that it was wrapped up so much due to its loathsomeness.

Jeanne has one fortunate advantage: she can immediately assume the Adversary is the Devil. With effort she can tie this to a second statement: "There is no kin left to me". The Devil has killed Thomasin's entire family. Perhaps indirectly through incitement at times, much like how their group of students has been decimated; it could even be incitement that Thomasin had to triumph within. Jeanne is willing to apply a discerning ear to those coy, skittish words and not judge any of the possibilities contained within them.

Thomasin has nothing. To lose everyone, and be left with nothing. Not even a familiar face from the next village over, a fisherman's son or weaver's daughter. And their isolation on the farm did make them vulnerable to the Adversary, perhaps. Jeanne flops part of the way around to look at Thomasin.]


My heart bleeds for you. I have no part of the new families that have been spoken into being by some of the others in this school. But if you are separated from your home forever in this violet mockery of hell, then you will not be alone.

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