An Assassin's Teapot *Contains Slight Cannibalism* (Feburary Challenge)

Posted on Wed Feb 23rd, 2022 @ 8:51am by

Mission: MISSION 0 - History Speaks
Location: Betazed, House Kessanna
564 words - 1.1 OF Standard Post Measure

Jessica prepared the tea just the way her mother and sisters liked it.. Only it would be the last tea they'd ever drink. She found this wonderful thing in Earth's historical files. The very historical files her mother viewed as unimportant.

She had planned this carefully, ever since her father... died mysteriously. Now Jessica Kessanna's life was all tradition and finery. She was the perfect porciline doll her mother always wanted so much the beatings stopped once Jessica delivered, often beyond her physcial capability, what her mother wanted.

Now she was doing this for the last time. The door opened and her mother entered. She inspected Jessica first, then inspected the tea placement. "Excellent." Lucianna Kessanna noted. "You will make a fine wife to Dorilan Kaso."

"Yes mother, I am grateful." Lucianna sat down and began to stir the tea... Stir... Stir... Stir.... In went a sugar cube. Finally after smelling the tea, she took a sip. Jessica sat down gracefully and also took a sip from her tea.

"Perfect... You mixed the tea to perfection. And these scones have been baked well.

"Dammit all!!! Where is your sisters...." Lucianna noted.

"They're here, Mother." Jessica stared at the scone she was eating.

"Where??!?!"

"In your hand... mother...." Jessica replied.

Lucianna suddenly pulled the scone apart in order to find a finger.

"Alessa was hard to carve.." Jessica noted.. "As was Killania."

Lucianna smirked. "So you killed your sisters..." She sipped her tea. "I didn't know you had it in you."

"I'm afraid soon, you are going to die as well." Jessica did not betray any emotion.

"Of course I am.. I expected it when I noticed the teapot. You finally after all this time became a Daughter of the Kessanna family."

"You allowed yourself to be poisoned." Jessica mentioned in surprise.

"Indeed.." Lucianna noted. "If you succeeded in killing your sisters, then you would have killed me eventually. You did this splendidly. And there you are sipping your tea, without a single emotion on your face. Just like a Kessanna Matriarch. Never betraying a single thought. I have created perfection." She coughed. Your childish Naivete has dissapeared. Now you will serve your own self-interest. My daughter." She coughed several times.

"You made me, I never made myself."

"And you have awed me, Jessica." Lucianna noted. "There's only one way forward with you now. You will understand and wield power like a fine sabre. You will."

"Goddesses have mercy, Just die already you insufferable cur." Jessica stated. "I have more important matters to attend to than creating your Legacy, as I intend to create mine. I will have you and everything you've done... Undone."

"What?!?"

Jessica spoke. "I never wanted to become this... You forced everything onto me my entire life, and therefore I will dismantle House Kessanna."

Lucianna gasped with laughter as the poison was taking her. "I cultivated a love for power in you... You will drink power like fine wine.... You... can... not... "

Lucianna smiled at Jessica as she turned purple.. Accepting her death. Her eyes suddenly went lifeless.

Whatever designs Jessica had... They were meaningless. She only knew one thing... Being the daughter of House Kessanna. She knew court proceedings, politics, administration... and persuation.

Like a borg drone... She had been programmed.. Her life... did not belong to her..

She was Matriarch Jessica Kessanna now.. And she had an agenda.

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