Challenge
You've been told by your father that he will ask you to die a painful humiliating death in 40 days from today, but the choice is up to you. How does that make you feel. 150 coins to the most philosophically significant non-rhyming entry.
eloping of a consort
The women here are not women. The women here are neither the hawking street vendors of the square nor the humble farmers of the countryside, as we have neither mouths nor fingers to fill either of those roles. We ornamented, dainty, useless things -- the blue bloods, the royals, the valued -- are too easily auctioned off for the sake of marriage, our virgin bodies held high on pedestals. And so I married young. Loveless. Kept my gaze forever downcast until I found a curious, bespectacled one staring right back at me.
My father, standing over us in the aftermath of my undoing, asked if I was prepared to face the consequences. If I felt vaguely ashamed over the sin. Window behind me already cracked, carriage outside, I nodded.
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