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[dated to May 21-27]
For a moment, Saffron entertains the possibility of just shutting herself into the condo and not leaving until the words go away. She knows Church would support her if that's what she wanted to do. She knows they would probably be able to figure out a convincing enough story for the kids, although it would take a bit of doing. But she doesn't want to stay hidden away.
Saffron's done a lot of things many folks might have eventually come to regret. She doesn't, though. She's never regretted a single thing she did before Darrow, before the island, and she never will. She didn't retire from her career as a con artist by choice. And while she most like will never go back to it, not unless she finds herself back home out in the 'verse one day, it's not because she doesn't miss it. It seems like a contradiction to look back on that time fondly, given her life now and over the past several years, but Saffron's always been a complicated woman.
Her past, though, has never been something she's been willing to talk freely about, in large part because she knows how most folks would react to the things she used to be, the things that still live inside her in a way. An abandoned child, a whore, a con artist, a widow many times over - all pieces of the part of her life she keeps to herself. She can't stand the thought of anyone looking at her in that way. Now, though, if she's going to go out in public for however long this lasts, she's going to get some questions about the words emblazoned across her back in an elegant black script:
BLACK WIDOW
The answers will depend on who's doing the asking.
[Feel free to set your thread to anytime during the plot. This can be the first time your pup has seen the words or it can be later on in the plot, up to you. If you want the latter and would like to know what explanation she would have given your pup, let me know. Open for as long as it needs to be, no limit.]
Saffron's done a lot of things many folks might have eventually come to regret. She doesn't, though. She's never regretted a single thing she did before Darrow, before the island, and she never will. She didn't retire from her career as a con artist by choice. And while she most like will never go back to it, not unless she finds herself back home out in the 'verse one day, it's not because she doesn't miss it. It seems like a contradiction to look back on that time fondly, given her life now and over the past several years, but Saffron's always been a complicated woman.
Her past, though, has never been something she's been willing to talk freely about, in large part because she knows how most folks would react to the things she used to be, the things that still live inside her in a way. An abandoned child, a whore, a con artist, a widow many times over - all pieces of the part of her life she keeps to herself. She can't stand the thought of anyone looking at her in that way. Now, though, if she's going to go out in public for however long this lasts, she's going to get some questions about the words emblazoned across her back in an elegant black script:
The answers will depend on who's doing the asking.
[Feel free to set your thread to anytime during the plot. This can be the first time your pup has seen the words or it can be later on in the plot, up to you. If you want the latter and would like to know what explanation she would have given your pup, let me know. Open for as long as it needs to be, no limit.]
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She's so focused on getting the cupcakes ready that she starts a little when Derek speaks, looking up at him with widened eyes. For a moment she wonders how he knows when she's been careful to stay facing him, but in the next moment she realizes that of course he could sense it. She's been worried since she woke up this morning, knowing she'd see him today.
"No, I don't want to keep it from you," she replies. "I've just been trying to figure out how to explain." Worrying her lower lip, she turns around so he can read the words, big and black and visible through clothes and even her hair.
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"If you want to try to explain, I'll listen," Derek tells her. "But those words don't change how I feel about you."
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"Not much to explain," she says. "It is just what it sounds like. I've been married a whole lot of times, and every time but one I left making sure I'd end up a widow. The one time I didn't, he managed to outsmart me."
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"Can I ask why?" He says after a moment, pausing in his food prep to look at her. "I assume they weren't good men."