Redemption Lies Plainly in Truth - dilapidatedcorvid - The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir [Archive of Our Own]
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Mercymorn the First/Cristabel Oct
Characters: Mercymorn the First, Cristabel Oct
Tags: Character Study, Self-Reflection, Self-Hatred, Angst, Literary References & Allusions, Harrow the Ninth Spoilers (Locked Tomb Trilogy), tltexchange2020
Summary:As she fell, she cupped your face as she was so fond of doing, and she held your fretting hands by your fingertips, and she smeared her precious blood like anointing oil on your knuckles and on your palms and on your wrists and on your lips, her final benediction as she died on the cold marble floor in your arms. Smiling. Like she was going home to God. She had died for your indelible sin and you had spit and cursed and sobbed, foetal, over her broken body as if you could bring her back if only you wept hard enough.
or, Mercymorn has a headache.