White Whispers
"No, Your Grace. Life gets complicated with the heart. Once there's a heart, there are feelings, a flow of blood, and there is death. I cut things. Although, mostly, I'm used on humans. I don't feel the slickness of their blood, since I have no feelings, but it speaks to me. Yes, blood always speaks. It's the only thing from the human body that speaks the loudest when he is dead. Always it is praying, and wishing things were better. It cries to God. And I know you represent blood, Your Grace."
Rose smiled.
"Is this a trial, Your Grace?" the knife asked. "Surely, you didn't choose me to speak by mere happenstance."
"Your edges are blunt," Rose said. "Why is that?"
"I dulled myself. I hit myse
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