Bend or Break, the Lady Chooses

I remember that day clearly when through a sea of mundane I looked up to see a chaste, beguiling soul beckoning me, enticing me to take the shine of purity off her essence. She came to me in the form of a little minx and from that moment she invades my every thought and leaves me to the seduction of her entrapment. I while away my hours as I plan to destroy her but she has already consumed me, this creature more dangerous than hate or fear, this innocence who will ambush a soul before the very thought was consumed.

Minxie you have seduced me with your virtue; that sweet perception of the world based upon the fantasies of a young girl on the precipice of life, one foot in still in the nest and the other set firmly upon destruction. I spied you all those months ago, chatting aimlessly with your vapid clan of consumer monkeys and here you are not so many weeks later driving past my office on the heels of the mountain and I have to ask myself what are the rules of this engagement? Am I to follow, to spy, to threaten, to plot, to destroy?

I am if not anything a creature of habit and out of habit I had someone follow her Northside to see what she was up to and to all intents and purposes it appeared she was servicing the lumbering whale she calls a car. The watcher reported back exactly what she wanted them to report back as whatever your ploy was it managed to fool the stupid creature I sent and for the rest of the afternoon my delightful adversary was missing in action.

I did not chide the minion for being fooled so easily, for that is the lot of minions to be outwitted by their superiors and minxie despite her horrific social values and psychologically deformed friends was infinitely superior to those about her, I knew this even before I had knowledge of her being a Dubois. I also was aware that that my passion was renewed with an intensity that seared the core of my very soul and I would express my desires upon my dear little cousin whether she had plans for me in her life or not. It is one thing to consume the delectable treats on offer in this town but the sweet nectar of forbidden fruit is intoxicating beyond compare. I have had this pleasure in my past and I was firmly engineering to have it in my future, I will have you minxie, anyway the universe offers you up to me and if you persist in this pointless war it will be sooner than you think.

Sometimes I wonder if it her innocence itself that blinds her to the futile effort of all her plans, for all her machinations surely she would remember that she has grown up in this very town, a place littered with the tragic histories of those who would cross a Dubois. Now she plans to cross a member of her own family? It is as inconceivable as it is amusing for minxie has not considered all the ramifications of such a decision. I spent the rest of the day enjoying my chair and watching the town below me wondering if any of them existed outside their little universes. Did they know that above them there was a clash of the titans and soon there would be another obedient Dubois added to the compound? Mark my words, the stick either bends or breaks but either way she will learn my truth.

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