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 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:26 pm
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The world wakes around her—the crunch of leaves and a low squeak—prying into the absence of thought. Stirring, she frowns at her surroundings and then stills as the sight and smell of blood invade her senses. Panic strikes like a cobra and she wars—who has silently and expertly injured her, no, who has she killed—until her eyes, so like a rabbit’s, fall upon a swan.
She has never seen such a creature as this. It is black—inky depths hiding flecks of pulsing red that peek through—in a way that even night is not. The swan seems to glow. Instead of dark, beady eyes… Indescribable. They are not white; they are hope.
Its eyes are piercing and innocent. Shame bubbles up, a brook that pulses into an ocean, as she takes in the animal. It knows what a monster she is. (She doesn’t want to be.) She breaks eye contact, swallows the lump in her throat, but refuses to break. She can be better. She can. (She hasn’t yet, not really.) But first she has to try.
In dulcet tones—too sweet and not at all her—she tries to put the animal at ease as she rises to her hooves. She needs to see what’s wrong to help. Wants to avoid the guilt that twists her stomach into knots at its bright eyes. (I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.) |
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:28 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:38 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
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Total: 7 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:41 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
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Total: 4 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:46 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:49 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
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Total: 7 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:51 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 10-sided dice:
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Total: 9 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:53 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 2 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:00 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 4 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:03 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 7 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:06 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 3 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:10 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 2 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:14 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 8 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:17 pm
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 8-sided dice:
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Total: 4 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:20 pm
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