#natendo

"Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, 'I am running away.'

'If you run away,' said his mother. 'I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.'"

"Jon turns, his silhouette changing, and Martin realizes one of the children is on his hip, held in his arms as he moves, and a small laugh bubbles up and out of him.

Dancing. Jon is dancing."

"None of it is what the Creature truly is. None of this is it, what it is, what it wants. This isn’t even really what it looks like, Laurel knows, and yet— it is.

"Their lips, forever twisted just a slight turn down, seek the edge of the Creature’s closest tusk. Pressing a kiss to the curved razor-jut of ivory-bone, they whisper, 'I’m so sorry.'"