The Snow Child

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The Snow Child
I wish I had a girl as red as blood
- I wish I had a girl as white as snow
  - As soon as he completed her description, there she stood beside the road, white skin, red mouth, black hair and stark naked
    - I wish I had a girl as red as blood
      - I wish I had a girl as white as snow
        As soon as he completed her description, there she stood beside the road, white skin, red mouth, black hair and stark naked
        I wish I had a girl as black as that bird's feather
    - I wish I had a girl as black as that bird's feather
Is she a fish, to swim in such cold weather?
- The Countess threw her diamond brooch through the ice of a frozen pond: 'Dive in and fetch it for me.'
The Countess was bare as a bone and the girl furred and booted
The girl picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls.
- The Count... thrust his virile member into the dead girl
  - The Countess... watched him narrowly
    - Then the girl began to melt.
      - There was nothing left of her but... a blood stain, like the trace of a fox's kill on the snow
- When she (the Countess) touched it, she dropped it. 'It bites!' she said.

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