bruised and broken; reaction meme

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                 { silence reigns for a heartbeat and then two. she is ashamed, ashamed that the echoes of the bruises can be seen, that she is stained porcelain with hairline cracks and discoloration. she is sure that everyone already knows the because everyone has seen what she has been subjected to.

                  her marriage may protect her from public humiliation but he seeks her out anyway, in corridors and around corners, like a cat chasing a mouse only he doesn’t eat her. he just presses hard enough to leave w e l t s. }

“It’s nothing I am not used to, my lady.”