This is a fantasy scenario that involves themes of non-consent and incest. Despite the tag, all participants are willing and consenting parties and will be made explicitly so in the text
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The Duchess was flustered even before their weekly meeting began. The Duchess Marie's face was red, even under her heavy powdered makeup. Her silvery blonde hair was pulled up into a lavish pouf, in imitation of the Queen's style with whom she shared her name, but at the moment the Duchess fully lacked any queenly composition.
She glanced over at her companion and longtime confidant as if noticing her for the first time.
"My dear Sophia you simply wouldn't believe the day I'm having," Marie said dryly, continuing to fan herself as she reclined across the chaise lounge, propped up on her elbows at one end with her heaving bosom rising and falling against her tight dress.
"Do tell," Countess Sophia encouraged her friend. The woman was an incomparable gossip, and there was no dish Sophia craved more than the latest royal outrage.
The olive skinned, southern woman sat patiently across from her overly dramatic northern companion. While her host was dressed in a stuffy white dress with pink accents, Sophia had wisely chosen a more open, broad shouldered black dress in keeping with her the traditions of her Spanish side. She crossed her legs and settled in for a long story.
"I came upon a letter," Marie explained, as if she'd casually stumbled on the parcel rather than rifling through all the mail she could get her hands on. "It was from my youngest daughter, Veronique, addressed to her sister."
"The one in the convent?" Sophia asked. The elder sibling had a year ago been shipped off after her illicit activities had begun to provoke scandal.
"She has no other," Marie snapped, recognizing the obvious jab.
"What harm is there in communication and love shared between siblings?" Sophia asked.
Marie scoffed.
"It's the nature of that love that has me concerned."
Marie's cold blue eyes darted over to a servant, and flicked her hand to usher the man away. When they were alone, she reached into her bosom and retrieved a crumpled letter that had been held in those caverns. She flicked through a few pages before finding what she was looking for, and then began to read it aloud.
β I have heard of those riots even here in the far north. We've heard of fighting over bread and marches to the palace β
Sophia reached for her wine.
"Well there's nothing wrong with a woman taking an interest in poiti-"
Marie shot her a glare that silenced her and froze her mid-reach.
β Though the situation is frightful, I admit that on some nights when I'm alone in my bedroom I can't help but imagine something like that happening here. Many a warm summer evening have I laid in that bed and explored myself imagining there to be an angry mob gathered outside.
It's terrifying, yes, but how I dream of some horde of unwashed, grim-visaged peasants bursting into my room bearing knives and pistols, hungry looks of lust captured in flickering torchlight.
In my dreams we still share this room. After all, what knowledge I have of the intimacy between genders comes only in peeking through the blankets late at night and watching you tumble with some young noble. I treasure those memories of watching your body, a near replica of my own, in pale blue moonlight on hands and knees while some boy thrusts against you from behind. How easy it was to see the face of one who might as well be my twin contorted in an ecstasy I had yet experienced, and imagine myself in your high-heeled shoes.
But these dark dreams of which I speak, my oldest friend, twist that memory.
I know that in your convent, it's likely you may have taken to some more prudish habits that might lead you to rebuke any fantasies of non-consent, so please know that in all of these fantasies it is the you I remember, that in these dreams we are only playing at a struggle as our captors arrive at our express invitation.
In these dreams, the mob rips the clothes from your body, shedding your thin night-shift. They would render bare those rounded, teardrop shaped breasts so cruelly now hidden by the Nun's habit. The man's lips press firmly down against yours as his fingers tangle in your golden hair.
A man and a woman, featureless in my mind save for their savagery, they hold me down between the beds on my knees. My wrists bound behind my back, and as I try to scream they tie a rag between my lips.
I know not how to interpret this, dear sister, but the rag is not to keep alarm from spreading. In the rooms all around us we can hear the screams of servants, even our mother and father, facing humiliation at the hands of the vindictive mob. No, being gagged here is an act of humiliation. Another agency stripped β