[#hotshot #sub #pretty #FFM]
"So, do I get a chance to speak with the Orishas?" Israfel leaned to whisper in Ursula's ear. "I do not know how you all do things here in the West but in the fae Capital, we have Confessors; and you and I both know, Your Excellency, I have a lot to confess of. I would very much like private time with your veiled priestesses." He did well to hide the mischief in his gold eyes as he ended with a sly purse of his lips and sweet sin in his lopsided grin.
Ursula blushed though she wasn't looking in his direction. Her own serpent gaze was turned to the wood dais where the Patchwork Man had just met certain death from the Guillotine's slash; the headless nude body—so awkward in its multitude of misfit limbs and discolored skin patches—slowly slid to the raised execution stand.
The people were still cheering and waving high hands. The Republic hadn't seen a public display this good in three hundred years.