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    There was more writing crowding that same page, curling around the drawing as though desperate to squeeze every last inch of space. Murth hesitated. Did she even want to keep reading?

    It was all so—so incredibly juvenile.

    Lady Glinda, who for a long time had been the most powerful woman in Oz, who conducted herself with the unshakable poise of someone befitting her station, who had gathered supporters all over the world with wit and charm and a mind sharper than steel—all of that reduced to a teenage girl involved in petty university dramas.

    And involved with the Wicked Witch of the West!

    How come that secret had never been brought to light, even years after Lady Glinda's death?


    Or, Glinda's handmaiden finds her journal, along with several scandals that are hidden inside the pages.

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    “A bad omen,” Elphaba said to the voice, turning slowly on her knees and rising ever so clumsily until she fell into a pew, boards hard at her back. “Hello, Glinda. You look ridiculous.”

    “So do you,” the girl muttered, and fit her hands along her hips in a very reminiscent sort of way. “Praying, Elphie? And such a dingy chapel at that. You’ll dirty your pretty dress.”

    or, glinda comes to visit elphaba in the emerald city chapel three times that one winter.

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    galinda is a melancholic innkeeper in a little beach town, elphaba is a guest who she can’t quite figure out. a story about wanting, mostly, but also beaches and pastries and knowing oneself.

    or, the inn au!

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    19 Nov 2025

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    “Elphaba stayed in her room for a day. Galinda came and went with a dinner. On occasion she would stay for a few minutes.”
    - Wicked, Gregory Maguire, pg. 123

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    For the first time, Galinda sat down in the room, on the armchair across from Elphaba’s desk. She perched on the very edge of it with her legs primly crossed at the ankles, as if she was preparing to run. Galinda’s sunburn bloomed a soft pink on the high arc of her cheekbones, the bridge of her nose… which was dotted with freckles, as Elphaba would have noticed if she’d cared to look more closely. Galinda’s summer dress hung loosely over her legs.
    With great effort, Elphaba averted her gaze.

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    Or, as we know, a lot can happen in a few minutes.

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    It was wishful thinking. It had to be the truth. Glinda may not know much but she knew performance, and the more she thought about it the better it fit. Elphaba’s death didn’t make sense. Glinda had seen it with her own eyes and had stupidly believed that was proof it had happened.

    Elphaba’s melting shadow had been wearing the hat. Glinda wasn’t sure of the scientification of melting, but surely either all or none of her clothes should have melted. Surely Elphaba herself shouldn’t have melted. Fiyero’s body was missing, and Elphaba’s hat was in her hands.

    Glinda stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she realized she must have been crying. She looked crazy. It didn’t matter.

    Elphaba was alive.

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    19 Oct 2025