A/N: Written for the Another Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompt #22 - industrious
Tales in a Kifu
10. Rival Crafting
If he has no rival, he'll build one.
If he has no equal, he'll build one.
If he has no partner, he'll find one
and sweep her off her feet
and into her arms.
It's a strange courting dance
he's proposed
but he's stained her bridal dress
with red, so there's no going back now.
Perhaps he could have picked a colourless way:
stained with the rotting black
of his soul…
No, she'd be a corpse bride either way, but he
wanted to be red, and whole
For, at least that,
their matrimony.