Mr. Punch

In a perfect world, it occurs to me now, i would write this in blood, not ink.

One cannot lie, if one writes in blood. There is too much responsibility and the ghosts of those one has killed will rise up and twist the pen down true lines, change the written word to the unwritten as the red lines fade on the page to brown.

That's why deals with the devil must be signed in blood. If you sign your name in blood, it's your real name. You can't change it.

There, now. And already I'm speaking of blood; and it's the past I meant to speak of.