Red Roses of Passion Page #3

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Tonight your cherry flower.

There'll be no more!

Help us get undressed.

Tonight we shall share the rose.

You, fetch some pillows.

Release her, I can

handle her now.

- Well, I guess you had to

find out sooner or later.

This goes on all the

time with those two.

Oh enid, I'm afraid they're

gonna destroy each other.

- Isn't that what you want?

- No.

I only wanted to take them

down a peg, that's all.

I just didn't expect

anything like this.

For the last couple of weeks now

they've been acting like

a couple of mad women.

Tracey didn't go to work.

She lost herjob and

she didn't even care.

And every other night

when the delivery

of that rose is expected,

the two of them, they put

on their best lingerie

and they go stand by

that door and wait

like a couple of caged animals.

And then when the

delivery of the rose

finally gets here,

they go into this frenzy.

They fight and they

tear at each other

until they drop from exhaustion.

And when there's nothing

left but these petals,

they scramble around

to pick them up.

Oh.

Then they put on their

coats and they go out

just to find any kind of men.

Oh, I can only imagine the kind.

And of course the neighbors,

they think we're all tramps.

- Why don't you just move out?

- Oh enid I can't.

I've got to be here to stop them

when the delivery

of the rose comes.

Otherwise they'd

kill each other.

Enid, please talk to

Martha Kay for me.

I want her to stop the

delivery of those roses.

- I have no right

to ask her that.

Why don't you?

- Oh I've tried, I've tried

to see her every night.

But the place is

always locked up.

I thought maybe you might...

- well tonight is

the conversation

of the three quarter moon.

If you go to Martha's

at 8:
30 I'm sure

you may see her there.

- Oh I'll be there.

- Good.

Wear the costumes we wear.

- Oh, yes I will.

Enid...

- Yes.

- Enid, those roses,

what do they do to you?

- The roses.

I told you once before.

Their touch produces

the sweetest torment

you can imagine.

The sweetest.

I'd better go,

it's getting late.

- Oh gosh, that blasted rose

will be here any moment.

And I've got to

prepare myself to keep

Tracey and aunt

Julie from tearing

each others throats out.

- I'll go outside the side

door so I don't run into them.

Don't forget, I'll

see you at 8:
30.

- Okay-

- tonight I'm sure

he'll be here to see me.

- To see you?!

You mean to see me.

- You'll find out

when he gets here.

Now we'll see who he's here for.

- Ms. Holmes, you look

so very perplexed.

- I'd like you to

stop the delivery

of those roses to where I live.

- Take off your coat

and sit over there.

We'll discuss it

after the ceremony.

- Can't we discuss it now?

- The moon waits for no one.

Since you are to be the

principle communicant tonight...

Arise priestesses

of pan and join me

with the communicant of

the three quarter moon.

Anoint the communicant

with the breath of pan's roses.

Untie her.

Prepare yourselves for

the conversation with pan.

We are ready.

Take her to the altar of pan.

If you'll wait we'll

discuss your problem

after this sacred ceremony.

We were talking about the

deliveries of the roses.

- Yes.

I want you to stop them.

- Oh, it's not that simple.

It's not for me to

stop those deliveries.

But I might be

able to find a way.

I can only prevail

upon the sender

to stop those deliveries.

At the petition of a priestess,

one who has been granted the

favor in the first place.

- But that means...

- that means you

must take the vows

of a priestess of

pan in order to

be granted your petition

for stopping the roses.

There is still time,

until midnight.

- Well.

She's alive.

Maybe you'd better call

some of your friends.

We'll make an all night party of it.

On second thought,

you'd better call

some of your acquaintances too.

Let's go.

You come too.

- Carla, why don't you join us?

- What have I done?

What have I done?

- Step forward Carla.

You've decided I assume to

become priestess of pan.

- The delivery of the

roses, will they stop?

- The deliveries will stop.

- And then Tracey and Julie,

what will happen to them?

- Awedge has already

been driven between them.

They've lost all

respect for each other

and for themselves.

They will go their separate

ways to find new lives.

- But they will find new lives.

- They will.

- And what about

the after effects?

- Once the roses

have been stopped,

the power of the

potion will wear off.

But there will be

other after effects.

Emotional ones.

Those will take a little

longer to wear off.

There is one other

thing I must tell you.

Once you have tasted

the wine of delphi

and held a rose from the

garden of pan to your breast

you will forever be

a priestess of pan.

At times we have had

priestesses like Jean

who have broken the vows of pan,

but they have always

returned for a taste

of the wine and a

caress of the rose.

- Then I will be addicted,

but you said...

- I said once the

roses are withheld,

the power of the

potion will wear off.

Your aunt and your

cousin did not know

the source of the

disturbance within them,

you will.

This flagan and the rose.

You'll know they give

incomparable pleasure.

Doing without them

will drive you mad.

In this knowledge, are you

prepared to take these vows?

- Lam.

- Then kneel.

Repeat after me.

By the sacred

pillars of pan I vow.

- By the sacred

pillar of pan I vow.

- To devote to the pleasures

of the great god pan.

- To devote to the pleasures

of the great god pan.

- My entire being,

my body,

and my soul.

- My entire being,

my body,

and my soul.

- You are now the

priestess of pan.

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