not gonna lie, edited this one just barely on the far side of a real bad migraine. Let me know if the shifting motivations are legible, I'un think they are much.
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You&& (working title) is a queer novella about when home is other people, including the monsters lurking in the woods. Check out the about page here. You&& is a sequel to Sometimes The Mountain Buries You.
Basin helps you move to the bedroom that smells less of them. You considered declining the assistance but the splitting pain in your head increases as you consider changing location—more new things, everywhere. Hall, bedroom, bed, blanket, bedside table, lamp. Your groan turns into a bugle and Basin stands outside the door for a minute cradling their mug of tea until you call, "Yeah, sure, okay."
They tell you you're not their first. Pain; heart-weary and heart-ache.
It calms your residual anxiety about being so close to a human. About the danger that was someone stitching you back together. You know it's dangerous, it's lethal.
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