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Title: A Stern Heart
Fandom: Otome Youkai Zakuro
Author: littlebutfierce/paperwar
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Agemaki/Zakuro
Summary: Agemaki's a coward, and Zakuro isn't, and that's all there is to it.
Content Notice: None
Disclaimer: No infringement intended, I don't own the series, etc.
Author's Note: My prompt was:
Blind with pain she limps home.
The thoroughbred has stood on her foot.
He rested there like a building.
He grew into her foot until they were one.
The marks of the horseshoe printed
into her flesh, the tips of her toes
ripped off like pieces of leather,
three toenails swirled like shells
and left to float in blood in her riding boot.
Word Count: 2036

A Stern Heart