❛ there is a beast inside of you. dragon-tailed and full of rage, it leaves scales behind wherever it prowls. at first you try to feed it so it doesn’t devour you: raw pieces of your heart still bloodied. try to tame it, try to own it, to rein it in on the nights when its howls scrape across your insides like fingernails dragging across rusted steel, but it eats you anyways. the cavernous darkness of its belly swallows you up. it says, you will always be afraid. ❜














