In Memoriam Vitæ

News of her death was a shock, but not a surprise. She'd always flaunted society's strictures. When her body betrayed her, she took her own way out. We five have gathered in The Room, where our real lives began. For each, she was our first, our Mistress. She moulded us and trained us and made us whole. She revealed the truth of us. Naked, we stand circled, to each unknown, united together