Word: roxanna
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...Roxanna!” screamed Frederick. Blinded by tears, he stumbled to the door and followed after. Felicity hurled books after him, screaming herself: “Go to her! Yes, go to her, sinner...
...dark house came alight with fire. She paused at the top of the great staircase. In the gray din below, she thought she saw a thread of golden hair. It disappeared, and then she saw her imbecile of a husband running in the same direction. He must not reach Roxanna! Felicity hurled the burning torch down the stairs at Frederick’s feet. Frederick shrieked and jumped back as a line of fire sprung up before...
...Roxanna! My love!” Frederick sobbed, ineffectually trying to pirouette over the flames...
...smoke that clogged her throat and the soot that burned her eyes, Roxanna groped along the molding of the walls until she reached the door. Air! She sucked in great lungfuls of it as she ran as fast and far away as she could from that house of sin. She stopped finally on a hilltop overlooking the manor, unable to run anymore. Her head was light from all the smoke, but her body felt heavy and pendulous...
...orifices in neat rows. The entire roof of the great hall was a liquid pool of red and yellow. On and on it burned. Within her, another fire lapped ravenously, unforgivingly against the inner walls of her being, threatening to consume her. A rafter fell with an explosion, and Roxanna lifted her hands to shield her face. But then she stilled, staring down with horror at her once ethereally white hands. They were black with soot...