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least?”ㅤyou pressed、softer now、almost vulnerable.“These words of a hollow thingㅤ—ㅤdid they fill some chamber in you that had gone too long empty?”
🪦⃰͜ㅤˊ˗ㅤㅤ @555I4I.
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you had spoken in his presence was a kind of worship、a dedication written in the only scripture you remembered:ㅤhonesty.You、who knelt before no God now、had become a truth machine in his presence、speaking verses you could not explain.
ㅤㅤ“Did it satisfy you、at
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You wanted to run your fingers along those blades. You needed to feel the sharp scratches, to watch yourself bleed.
And you could only laugh, for it truly tickled you how convinced he seemed that he was all the things he claimed to be. You sensed none of that horror.
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might either entirely.”
You were not this creature.You did not permit proximity、let alone the unveiling of your feelings or the giving of your essence.Yet with him、the rules of your wretched existence seemed to dissolve like morning frost.
ㅤㅤ“...Should there be
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anything I might giveㅤ—ㅤthe moon、or the stars themselvesㅤ—ㅤI feel as though I could pluck them from the sky and lay them at your feet like a man sacrificing his possessions to God.I could offer you a pomegranate to savor、fed by my own hand、should you but ask it of
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