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December 13, 2023 - January 3, 2024
Maybe love is simply reminding someone how wonderful they are, how strong they are. Showing them the shining potential you can see. Lifting them up to be the best of themselves.
“Why does everything beautiful have to be so dangerous?” I step over a vine, then shy away from the copiously leaking trunk of a tree. “Danger is what makes beauty worth having, precious.” With a whir of his wings, he flies over a cluster of vines.
Perhaps that’s what love is—the gradual disappearance of the walls between two souls. Some walls evaporate on their own; others have to be dismantled, brick by brick. Sometimes you reach out, thinking all the walls have been deconstructed, only to find a thick glass shield around the heart of the one you love. Only the heat of a persistent, intense devotion can ever soften it. I will melt Fin’s final wall, if it takes me years. That sweet, wounded heart of his is worth it.
“Precious human,” he breathes. “I want to fuck you until you’re senseless from pleasure. I want to make you come until you can’t breathe. I want to savor your mouth until it is scarlet and swollen from my kisses.”
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“But one person's freedom is another's oppression. What you call freedom is just an excuse to be cruel to the weak, the defenseless, and the less fortunate.”
