Dream Episode - Rose and Violet

Day of dream: a long time ago (recorded a day after the dream)

Two sisters, one mild and gentle (let's call her Rose) and the other dark and little rebellious (Violet).

Violet (accidentally?) killed a person. She is going to be caught, but of course she did not want to. Rose knew about the murder/manslaughter too, and advised her to go with the guards peacefully.

The law of the land allowed each person to commit a number of crimes, each of which will be recorded on the body as a bruise or a scar. The more serious ones were marked in more prominently. When the number of "second chances" ran out, the person will be executed.

Violet had caused enough trouble in the past, and she foresaw causing more trouble ahead. Besides, she was attracted to a guy, and Rose was a possible competitor to his affections. Violet was thinking about Rose's suggestion to willing submission. Then she looked at Rose, the good law-abiding Rose, everyone's favorite Rose. Nobody would blame Rose heavily even if anyone believed that Rose actually killed. Violet looked at her, thinking about having Rose take the rap for her. Rose caught a glance at the look, and suddenly became very defensive about her position, even aggressive against Violet. Violet tried to calm her down, claiming that it was just a thought.

Rose's wand was nearby, in the wand box. Although magic was seldom used, some people can be given a wand and be encouraged to pick up and refine the skill. Rose got the wand when she was a teen, but Violet did not, because people trusted the gentle Rose with a wand to practice magic.

In the heat of the argument, they moved quickly for the wand. While they were struggling for the wand, the wand made up its own mind, and drew a hangman bruise across Rose's neck. The hangman bruise was a mark of capital offenses. The following capital offenses committed by one with the mark means death.

Rose was furious. Violet did not know how it happened. She thought the wand was Rose's, so it should be helping Rose instead of working against her owner. Rose explained (grudgingly) that it was because Violet was staring at the wand (in envy) so much, spending more time with the wand that Rose did, so that her thoughts influenced and changed the wand. In a way, the wand behaved like Violet would, with a little envy and jealousy toward Rose.

When the guards came, Rose struggled and insisted that she was not the one. But the guards saw her hangman bruise and took her away.

Violet felt guilty for having gotten innocent Rose into so much trouble. She felt like an unworthy and evil sister for perhaps unconsciously wishing Rose harm (as acted out by the wand). It was almost certain that Rose would be hung. Violet was determined to save her. She was ready to leave her love to run away with Rose and live as outcasts.

The next day, when Rose was resisting in vain as she was dragged onto the hanging platform, Violet came and snatched her away from the guards. Rose was not any happier with her sister. Although an outcast's life and her magical hangman's bruise tainted her life, it is a better option than death. While they were running, with Rose following closely behind the more active Violet, Rose said, "you might have stolen my life, but I had stolen the heart of your love. I slept with him the night before they took me away!"