TO DENY A LUNA
It changes everything.
You stop being afraid for yourself and start fearing for someone else—fiercely, obsessively, unrelentingly. Fear becomes something new. It grows fangs and claws and sits behind your eyes, watching. You carry it like armor, like a second skin. You become the barrier between your child and the world. Where you once feared nightmares under the bed, you now fear the real-world horrors: the stranger with the kind smile at the park, the headlines about children who never made it home. Each one slices into you like a warning, and you whisper to yourself, please not mine.
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