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𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 within her, something spilling out, something that shouldn't be leaving quite so soon.

The world has spun its course. It has let the darkness seep into her warmth, sucking it clean from her marrow until she was nothing but a cold shell waiting for the impending to come.

But she wasn't mad. No, she wasn't mad at all.

She knew she would end up here, broken and battered and lying next to the monster.

It had been fated this way and the monster had known, had kept it away because they never did like the truth because the truth had an uglier face but theirs was worse, it matched their insides. Rotten, maggoty, gnawed on by death. It was the same as hers, but hers was all warm and gooey and struggling to survive.

There had been a moment, between bed sheets, when she thought it would've been different. He was still waiting for her, wasn't he? He was waiting, as were they all, but he was the most prominent, the most dangerous. His call was like a fire breath, like some call to the wild.

Like calls to like.

But here, in this strangeness trying to collapse around her, it was different. But wasn't it always? This difference is trying to strangle her, trying to wrap its hands around her throat, thrashing her about? There was not a moment of peace where the hands retreated since she'd been born.

Constant toxicity had soaked up inside her blood, in her brain. The darkness had always been there, lurking at the dinner table, in the face of the monster who liked popsicles and summer nights, in her own reflection.

She'd seen it growing and growing, trying to capsize the small vessel she was trying to ride out this awful wave on. But the waves don't stop and neither does she as she cradles something broken inside of her as the monster's unblinking eyes stare into hers.

She hopes the end is kind to her. She hopes her gods are careful with her.

AUTHOR'S NOTE━━there's a very clear like....mirror to the prologue here in this baby chap if yall can find it.....

can yall guess what's happening or whats to come or am i being....cryptic

anyhoooo ily pls vote/comment kiss kiss and pls actually comment makes me sad when these chaps arent doing as well as the ones earlier in the fic :((