The Bone Houses
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The forest did not scare her; rather, she wanted to be like it: ageless and impervious, cruel and beautiful. Death could not touch
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She was a half-wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.
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“Yes,” she answered. “I grew up thinking monsters could be slain.” “Ah,” he said. “And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”
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Ryn thought that if she could love the monsters—then she could love those monstrous parts of herself.