In The Silence Of The Subway

   
 


 
    I wish they had seen me earlier, with the edge of my dress being squeezed in the mouth of bloodthirsty doors. Being dragged all along the platform into the darkness of an electrified tunnel was quite a humiliating experience.

You don't do that to a queen. So I sent a serpent to warn them, he spit in their eyes and then they finally found out about me, stopped the damned train, opened the door.

Gracefully I took the train of my dress out of the car. It was a long as the serpent.

But nobody was allowed to see me.

So I sent the train with its flighty servants to a crash.

With the sound of the crash, I had my regrets. I didn't mean to be that bad, but what could I do? I wish they had known about me earlier.

[sb]




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