[it's not a pleasant thing to look at, but anna watches the woman smile all the same. she has walked into dangerous places with her head held high. she has explored sublayers of reality and faced amalgamations of souls that threatened to erase her identity. she has forgotten her love for the suggestion of answers. she can handle a little terrifying smile.]
I don't. [she says it as she approaches. she kneels down gently on the ground, a little distance away from the woman but still there, touching the same floor. the blood and glass and sea-things accumulate under her coat; the coat itself spreads, and she shows her black band t-shirt, her torn jeans tucked into boots. her hands, from this distance, are matte black, and she takes the skull gingerly in them. it's a gift, isn't it? and she doesn't want to be rude or reject an offering. at this distance, she doesn't know if her souls can be felt, but she knows that she is a bizarre creature all her own one way or another, and that this skull is the only thing of bone that she still has within her. she's a monster, if she had to put a word to it, but she knows so little of monstrosity.]
If you want to tell me, then I'd be happy to listen.
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I don't. [she says it as she approaches. she kneels down gently on the ground, a little distance away from the woman but still there, touching the same floor. the blood and glass and sea-things accumulate under her coat; the coat itself spreads, and she shows her black band t-shirt, her torn jeans tucked into boots. her hands, from this distance, are matte black, and she takes the skull gingerly in them. it's a gift, isn't it? and she doesn't want to be rude or reject an offering. at this distance, she doesn't know if her souls can be felt, but she knows that she is a bizarre creature all her own one way or another, and that this skull is the only thing of bone that she still has within her. she's a monster, if she had to put a word to it, but she knows so little of monstrosity.]
If you want to tell me, then I'd be happy to listen.