Chapter 411: Ch 411: The Dollmaker’s Hymn.
He laced her legs with ribbons of red,
Stitching her eyes, bruising her head.
He cut her wrists and hymned a song:
"Pretty little things don't scream for long."
Petals of flesh fold under his blade,
He carves her stillness—a doll remade.
Candles flicker on her porcelain skin;
She's his chapel, a war to win.
He calls her name; she responds in kind,
Luring them in, subdued from behind.
He kisses her lips, now cold and tight—
A lover's goodbye, a killer's delight.
He dresses them up, no detail to spare,
Wrapped like a gift in death's cold stare.
He whispers in silence, a spark in his chest:
"Aren't they lovely, in eternal rest?"
He plays with them in love and fire,
A wet, choking gasp of deranged desire.
He licks the blood upon her face,
Then dumps them out—no one to trace.