Drabble: Calligraphy (Detective Dee, Empress Wu/Jing'er)

[lilacsigil]

Title: Calligraphy
Fandom: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Written for: fandom_stocking
Recipient's name: ambyr
Rating: Teen
Pairing/Characters: Empress Wu/Shangguan Jing'er
Word Count: 100



The whispers of the court say that I wrote this woman into being. Shangguan Jing'er, written out like a line from an old four-character poem. Well, if I did, I wrote her in blood. I executed her father and grandfather and made her and her mother my servants; I shaped every moment of her childhood and directed every morsel of wisdom or skill she learned. If I had indeed written her into life, her thoughts and deeds should flow from my brush just as easily. Instead, I write obedience but she serves gladly. I write fear and she returns love.



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Comments

[oyceter]

Oooo, I like it!

[lilacsigil]

Thank you!