Pincushion was feeling a little perplexed. Her position as the main object of Daddy Bills ministrations was being seriously challenged and she felt the slight to her self-importance far more deeply than any prior discomfort suffered to acquire the adornments she displayed with such great pride. Unable to show her protests orally because of the intervening swelling of both her uvula and lingua she decided to resort to banging her head rhythmically against the padded head rest of her perch of honor.
Father William stoically attempted to ignore the girl's tantrums. Imogen was carefully removing the last remnants of His magnificent benediction from the glands and urethral opening and He wished to allow this moment of perfect peace to last as long as possible. Unhappily the knocking began to infiltrate His mind. First simply as a faint ticking, like the movements of the second hand on His favored pocket watch, but sadly grew cancerously till the beating echoed through His ribcage and noggin like the constant pounding of war drums.
"ENOUGH!"
Stillness followed. That unearthly quiet that falls across the battlefield between a barrages cessation and the all consuming charge erupts.
"GET ME NEEDLE AND THREAD IMOGEN!"
The quiet became pensive. Whatever thought had entered the wildly furtive mind of the Creator was sure to be both unique and terrible. Father William stared down into pincushions wide eyes for a moment as if considering all of eternity's woes.
"Sometimes My dear we cannot allow the penitent to hurt themselves. It might be considered by those less holy masochistic. The pious man must stitch together a solution."
The suture case was exquisite. Made of the finest Moroccan leather its texture reminded Bill of all the wondrous times they had spent together. The zipper opened so smoothly, each tooth being released from the perfect caress of its two neighbors till the halves could be laid open allowing the glint of a myriad of steel needles to dazzle His eyes. Glancing at pincushion momentarily for inspiration He teased a half circular diamond shaped instrument from the velvet interior and raising it to the light checked the eye was suitably sized for His choice of thread.
"Now My dear, you need to lay still or this will be far more unpleasant for Me than it needs to be."
Pincushion felt a strange mix of emotions. Yes Daddy Bill was at last giving her the full attention she warranted but something about the insincere half smile made her wonder if His discomfort was about to be tested at all. Bill carefully passed the end of the waxed thread through the needles slot and carefully made sure that the thread was of equal length on both sides of the eye. Constant experimentation had shown Him that human flesh was far less resilient to the pull of stitching than would seem to the layman and He abhorred raggedy edges spoiling the esthetics of His craft.
The sharp point passed through pincushions left ear lobe with sumptuous ease and even doubled the wax on the thread ensured a good frictionless draw. Passing the needle through the thick plastic covering the headrest Bill carefully judged the length needed to completely fix pincushions head motionless but still allow her face to be directly upright. The nose had to be at right angles to the ceiling, Pythagoras insisted. Passing the needle back up through the lobe some two centimeters higher Bill moved to the other side of pincushions head. He quickly prepared a twin needle and thread and repeated the procedure exactly. He chuckled a little when He realized that for all pincushions apparent perfection her ears did not exactly match. Momentarily He considered reaching for a handy scalpel and immediately correcting the unfortunate genetic error but rather decided that such a procedure would be too sanguine for present circumstances and would be better performed with the amputations her eventual total metamorphosis might demand.
The stitching continued for several minutes till a perfect skein of sutures affixed the previously bobbing head into perfect statuesque stillness. Considering the problem solved Bill put needles and thread down then unwittingly brushed them onto the floor with His apron edge. At that very moment pincushion developed a sudden desire to blink continuously.
"Stop that winking its distracting."
Rather than cease her ocular twitches multiplied.
"That really is too annoying!"
Bill reached for the needles and thread but found them gone.