The Dire Girl
Lucas
I had never known helplessness could have weight.
It sat in the body like iron, dense and sickening, heavier even than pain. Pain was simple. Pain belonged to flesh, to broken skin, torn muscle, bruised ribs, the hot pulse of blood running where it should have stayed hidden. Helplessness was worse. Helplessness lived deeper. It entered through the eyes and lodged behind the breastbone, a terrible animal thing that tore and tore and found nothing to get its teeth into.
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