Windburn
Highlights
A voice that was most definitely illegal in the Bible Belt states.
“I wasn’t staring.” Pru sighed. Even to her own ears, the words were completely dishonest.
“Besides sassing her? Fuck her. Either of those would work for you, Prudence Ophelia Fowler of the ancient and questionably reputable Crow’s Nest Fowlers.”
“I couldn’t not stop by, Pru. I was just at the Library Board meeting. Can you imagine we have another anonymous complaint about several queer books?”
Book bans were something they had been seeing a lot of lately. Always anonymous. Always against queer or racial justice literature.
“A queer possum girl. How charming.”
“Clever girl.”
The fact that she hadn’t voted for him this past election since he started to become more and more conservative in some of the policies he was promoting…
“It was one of my best hexes. Good enough to hang in a museum. Hey, maybe the Louvre. I hear there’s room now.”
She wanted silence. Her books, her cat, and her comforter. She hadn’t opened a book in ages, very much aware that her mood and her state of mind kept her from reading, from touching paper and leather, from doing what she did best. She had been in love with books since she was old enough to walk.
“And what if I don’t want that collective pronoun, Prudence Ophelia? Ours sounds so very…nonexclusive.” Her thoughts spun, heady and dizzying, as Prudence’s treacherous blush snuck up from her low-cut dress and up her long neck. Rhiannon could almost taste the salt of her, the scent of her. She’d leave a mark and Pru would have to hide it for days, Rhiannon reveling in it, obscured but still there. Still hers.
Hell, if it wasn’t a book, she’d probably burn it. But that was a line that brought her too close to those who wrote it, and one line she couldn’t cross.
That takes steel ovaries.”
She is beautiful, I’ll give you that. But we redheads do tend to have a bad rep.”
It didn’t even matter that she could feel that Rhiannon cared for her. The woman saved her life. Granted, the woman also had a martyr complex the size of Lake Tahoe, but the point still stood.
