there is nothing you can do
it's already been done

ptolemaea, ethel cain

chapter nineteen

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SIDE EFFECTS OF TRAPPING AN ARCHANGEL IN YOUR HEAD —

ONE: Your skin won't quite feel right over your bones. It will feel borrowed, even though you had it first.

TWO: You will feel something wrong inside your veins. Something drumming, something Other. Something clawing to get out, for it does not belong there.

THREE: You will soon realize it's power you feel. Power you don't have access to swimming beneath the surface. It will make you feel sick.

FOUR: Your legs will feel too long. Your arms will feel too thin, too weak. Your hair will feel too short. Too dark.

FIVE: Your eyes will fear the color blue.

SIX: You will feel cold. Not even the weight of his arms wrapped around you will help. 

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