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Scarlet Desire

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Um.

Here’s the well. Will you let me leave now?

“How do you use it?” He asks, in a voice that makes me wonder if he’s actually confused or if he’s really just playing with me. But it sounds real enough, and I press down all my bubbling annoyance into a dense block inside of my chest as I slowly pick up one of the ladles.

“So this is a ladle,” I say, as nicely as I possibly can without sounding sarcastic. “You’re going to drink with it. And then you have to put it back into this pool, since you’ve put your mouth on it. The water’s always kept boiling so it cleanses it.”

“Hm.”

“This wasn’t in place when I was here,” He comments, as he casually takes a long sip. “I wonder who changed the system.”

I hold my breath, that the person who had changed this up was actually me.

“Uh, if that’s all you need, I better—”

“Did you come up with it?”

His sudden words take me by surprise. I stare at him, and he laughs deep in his throat as if my wide eyes had just confirmed his suspi
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