The Warmth of a Gentle Fire

This was a prompt posted by Wiwaxia Silver: “May I request for a vial of your insanity?”

I put a blackberry in her hand.

“I don’t understand. I was told that a vial–“

I took my spoon out of my teacup and tapped her nose with it, the metal still warm. “You don’t ask for insanity and understanding. One destroys the other.”

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