Strange Thoughts

A Journal Entry From Marigold

I've done something awful. Something that might get me killed. My husband, he has an unnatural power. I'm not supposed to speak about it. I hope that writing about it won't hurt.

I was walking through the palace, and saw Earnest, earnestly kissing another girl. He smiled when he saw me, as if I don't have a right to be mad. I do, and I'm ending his evil reign. Well, I already did.

I snuck up on him while he was looking at himself in the mirror. I didn't know what else to do, this seemed to be my only solution. He was going insane. Very insane.

I had stolen a dagger from his collection, a fine dagger from a place in the world that I had never heard of.

I sharpened the knife on a stone I found in my garden, being careful to hide it whenever he came out to check on me. When he came to ask me if I was mad. Of course I was! I would never respond, I just looked at the ground.

Once the blade was sharpened enough I followed him, until he was arrogantly looking at himself in mirror. I took the dagger, and slashed it at a vein in his throat. I know what you're probably thinking, I'm not a murderer, He didn't die. I slashed in just the right place, that it would bleed, still his movements, and he wouldn't die.

I took him to a small canyon. I lowered a rope down to the bottom, and climbed with him in my arms.

I laid his body at the bottom of the canyon. I cut his throat for the final time, and there he died. I guess I am a murderer.

He died at the same place the last reader died, and he will lay there until the next child comes along and takes his power from him. Then, his mind will be able to rest as his spirit does.

If anyone ever reads this, please forgive me for what I've done. Trust me, it was for the best.