Fics like a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive

Sometimes Glinda imagines that for herself—not quite the beating, maybe. But a lovely faked death, a splotch of blood from an assassin's blade, and a life on the other side of being known. Where would she fit, she wonders? Would she pick flowers with Elphaba, refusing to kneel in the dirt and claiming it was to keep her dress clean, when really her joints had started to ache at the ripe age of fifty-one? Would she scold Fiyero for putting the bowls on the top shelf? Would she come into their bedroom some nights, and would they have missed her there, even though she would never slot between their bodies in that kind of dance? She can't spend too much time imagining such things, however. It's never real. And her reality needs her with the ferocity of a thousand hungry teeth, always, forever. -- On Glinda and forgiveness--or, twenty-five years later, Glinda is faced with the same question. (Part three of a Fiyero/Glinda/Elphaba study)

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