Decameron: Quarantindr [V/8]
Ladies, if he:
is in love with you
is kind of a hot mess
is depressed all the time
is camping in the woods outside Ravenna because he’s nearly broke from trying to buy your love
He’s not your man. He’s the nobleman Nasagio.
Ladies, if he:
is a knight
is a ghost
is cursed to repeatedly act out the murder of another ghost (the ghost of a woman who rejected him in life) with the knife he used to kill himself, for all eternity, as punishment for her cruelty to him
He’s not your man. He’s the ghost knight in the forest that Nasagio has taken you to see.
Ladies, if you:
live in Ravenna
don’t want to end up being murdered for all eternity by the ghost of the man you rejected
He’s your man, I guess.
Decameron is a newsletter recounting the 14th Century set of quarantine tales for 2020. Read the original story.
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