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Esmeralda and Quasimodo

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“...in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a garment which had once been white, and around her neck was to be seen a string of adrezarach beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty. These objects were of so little value that the executioner had probably not cared for them. The other, which held this one in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other. Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged. Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither and had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame


Models: Mark and Sophia
Floor texture [link] by ~stalkerstock

Edit: Added bruising
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tcr11050's avatar
Though I may not like the ending of the novel, I do like this image here. They even used it for the La Jolla/Paper Mill Playhouse version of the Disney musical. But I decided to do a little twist here: The Marriage of Quasimodo(Reversed)