Wanda

Wanda is clever, rich, and beautiful, and as she says herself, she lives to enjoy herself. She makes men her slaves, then sets her feet, cold as moonlight, on their backs. Venus in her laurel crown, she is evil and reverie made flesh, and in all this darkness she alone, tall and slender, shines.

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Travel info: Curious History Exploration - Luxurious 7-Day Tour to Cambrian Castle

Date: A.F.3@2 June 18th-25th

Guide: Thomas @2@1

Brief itinerary:

Come on, uncover the mystery of the most infamous haunted castle from 300 years ago, Cambrian Castle!

We're tired of reading about the seductive lady and her twenty-five attendants in old books and silent films; it's all the same, so boring!

According to a Mythag expert who wishes to remain anonymous, there's been a new discovery in the area! @2@1 covered in thorns...

Call quickly @2@1@1. This trip will be unforgettable, chills guaranteed!

Excerpt from "Worster Tour Group Disappearance CaseFile Summary: Evidence S-145"

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On her very first day at Mythag, Wanda faced grave charges of "trampling others at will."

According to a student who wished to remain anonymous, he was simply passing the library when he happened to meet Wanda's eyes. He was then thrown to the ground, @2 and fitted with @3 (the student declined to give further details).

The whole ordeal lasted less than five minutes from start to finish. The conduct was vicious and appalling.

The Mythag Disciplinary Committee (hereafter the MDC) regards this matter with the utmost seriousness and extends its deepest sympathy. A special task force has now been formed, and Wanda will undergo continued and thorough correction of both attitude and behavior, so as to help her adjust to campus life as soon as possible.

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When that terrible plague came, Wanda had the castle gates welded shut with iron and settled into a life of pleasure, sealed off from the world entirely.

There were clowns to crack jokes and poets to improvise verse. There were musicians, there was fine food and wine.

Every joy and every safety lay inside the castle. Outside the castle lay a dark world that had been @2.

Just as the land beyond the walls became wholly dead, Wanda threw an extravagantly lavish masquerade for her several hundred followers.

It was three days and three nights of gorgeous, dissolute revelry. When midnight struck on the third day, some of the guests went utterly mad and others melted into puddles of black slime. Wanda's face cracked like porcelain, and black @2 ran out through the seams of her mask.

Her terrified followers huddled against her, shaking. She was perfectly calm.

One crack of her whip, and she ordered the ones who had gone completely mad to be @2, while the rest were to keep drinking and playing, without pause.

The lurid ball ended at dawn on the fourth day, the splendid hall awash with black @2 and red blood.

No one knows what happened in that place.

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"They who give themselves to fornication and lust shall suffer the punishment of eternal fire, as an example to all..."

For twenty-three days the monk stood outside her gate, reciting his dreary scripture.

Wanda had him bound and brought in.

The monk said,"Why be anxious over suffering? Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

She stripped off his clothes.

The monk said,"Why be anxious over clothing? The lilies of the field neither spin nor bow their heads."

She cut off his limbs.

The monk said,"Why be anxious over blood? Of all that is flesh, nothing lives forever."

Wanda laughed. "I shall not merely make thee bleed. I shall make thee my slave, for life after life."

"Why?" The monk lifted his head. "Should you not have mercy on your fellow, as I have had mercy on you?"

Wanda studied him. His eyes were very blue, the blue of a clear sky.

She gouged them out.

The monk died in the end, unable to endure the torture. The local parish feared her money and her power, and not one soul dared accuse her.

Before he died the monk said,"@2 is near. You should..."

Years went by. Wanda had long forgotten the monk's face and his name; only his eyes stayed with her. On the night she was about to be devoured by @2, that unfinished sentence came back to her.

"@2 is near. You should..."

Her mind clouding over, she tried to guess how it ended, and found nothing.

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