July 07, 2022, 05:24 PM
The child came closer.
It smelled now of rotten meat, bile, and the mud of its wallow. Its face looked squished. Did it have eyes? Sanja did not have the stomach to look.
A tiny yawn plumed from the child's mouth and in that moment Sanja saw their dark tongue. What had so afflicted this poor thing? It was wrong in so many ways — and Sanja wondered again, where the mother had gone.
But also, she could not blame them for abandoning something so obviously spoiled.
It smelled now of rotten meat, bile, and the mud of its wallow. Its face looked squished. Did it have eyes? Sanja did not have the stomach to look.
A tiny yawn plumed from the child's mouth and in that moment Sanja saw their dark tongue. What had so afflicted this poor thing? It was wrong in so many ways — and Sanja wondered again, where the mother had gone.
But also, she could not blame them for abandoning something so obviously spoiled.
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RE: host - by Sanja - July 07, 2022, 05:24 PM