Infinite-Spiral

Lamprey set the cane down across the desk, folding his arms. Below him, Deidre trembled, hands flat on the ground. She rocked back and forth, sobbing. “I have finished,” he told her. Immediately, she removed her hands from the wood floor, clutching them to her chest as if they had been burned. Apparently his lessons had not yet seeped through. “Go on,” he said. “Get out!” She started to stumble to her feet, doing all she could to not touch the ground, moving slowly under her bruises. “But I’ll be seeing you tomorrow,” he added as she went out the door. She stopped under the door frame,

Age: 15 Race: Half Human/Half Named Worlds: Travels throughout certain ones, doesn't talk about which ones True Name: Lenore Miseria Birthday: October 31 Height: 5'3" Traits: Literary, passionate, clever, crafty, suspicious Features: Champagne-blonde hair with subtle hints of lavender, teal-violet eyes, light skin with freckles on nose and cheeks, dresses in dark-colored Victorian inspired clothes Abilities: Alice is able to manipulate words on any surface.  She sometimes uses this to create stories and poems from random pages from just about anything or send secret messages to the few people she trusts Likes: Any works by Edgar Allan Poe (he

Alice Hunter was reading Othello for perhaps the tenth time when she heard the sound of something fragile shatter.  Were she not at the moment when Desdemona was to receive her punishment for sins uncommitted, she would have looked to see who broke what.   Reading tragedies were, if you asked her, sweeter than listening to the lies of happiness that plagued many a mind.  The princess would be saved by a brave knight in shining armor and spend the rest of their lives happy, the tragic prince would regain his birthright and the crown, and those who struggle through life in their muddied boots would finally wear the silver slippers they craved.