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“Focusing all your resources on these individual animals to determine what makes them so special distracts people from addressing the systems that killed all the other goddamn wolves in the first place, but we’ve had that argument before too.”
though on the inside, she classified all of their actions under the possessive umbrella of her labor and direction.
She one of those
You’re chasing another creature to give you the intimacy you’re craving, a being that can’t reciprocate your desire the way Riya can and has.
“Sometimes I’m not sure you see anyone besides yourself as a person,” she said.
Three days stuck inside her own skin,
And who else had Sean ever managed such unfettered intimacy with?
None of the closeness echoing from her borrowed memories of skinship truly belonged to her.
She felt bad that she didn’t feel bad.
if connecting your brain to a creature experiencing trauma is encouraging trauma-bonding? You seem to feel close to her, but she can’t reciprocate. A bit parasocial.”
Kate hadn’t been the one to leave her or betray her trust.
her pack
maybe, if some part of them recognized some part of her, her fragile unfurred skin could bed down within their companionate nest of bodies. Longing colored with agony rolled through her, the desire to cross from silent witness to welcomed partner. She knew them, and finally, she felt willing to be known in turn.
