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February 2025 Small Fandoms Drabblethon, 100 Words
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Dov'è Lucrezia è Morte

Summary:

Lucrezia contemplates her weapon of choice.

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Written for Small Fandoms Drabblethon 2025, 100words amnesty week for the prompt "fear," and Half a Moon 2025 Day 9 - Her weapon of choice.

I'm aware this is unfair to the historical Lucrezia, but who doesn't enjoy a good villain? The title is a line from the opera's prologue and means "where Lucrezia is, there is death."

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Poison has always been Lucrezia’s weapon of choice. Sometimes there is value in sending hard-eyed men with knives, but on the whole that is more her husband’s style. When someone has wronged her, she likes to see the fear and horror in his eyes as his strong arm fails, as his body betrays him. For those who deserve it, she makes their deaths slow and lingering; others are given the gift of a quick and silent end in their sleep.

She always keeps the antidote with her, of course, in case of mistakes; but Lucrezia Borgia very seldom makes mistakes.