There was blood, and she didn’t know how much of it was on her hands, because she had started this, she had called the angel through with her terrible wants. She had wanted to be a monster, to summon something monstrous to get rid of Lucille’s monsters, and now Bitter didn’t know who was the monster or where the lines that described it started or stopped. Did those lines reach into her? Was Vengeance still carrying out her wants or its own? Had she wanted Theron to become inanimate flesh, sudden meat slapping against the floor? Blessing had seemed to agree with the angels that monsters needed
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