Ouroboros Spine xlvv. before he gets there

happy to hear you’re doing better <3

a diamond he’d wish to be. had he more time — much more time — to morph and form just beyond mother’s wall of honeyed pelt and flesh, maybe then he’d become a diamond. radiant. beautiful.
he comes into the world not as this wondrous gem, but a barely developed coal. so unremarkable. ugly. so very ugly. 
lómion baptiste. firstborn. he knows not of his ugliness. no one does. not yet. they’ll all know one day, but not today
he lay betwix his dame and the litter for now, nearly silent.