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MABEL


The moon luminates the forest around me.

I walk. Not anywhere in particular, I just wanted to feel the brisk wind against my skin.

A twig snaps beneath my foot.

I look down at the now broken twig, small splinters protrude from the snap. Taking the twig from the ground, I discard one half and examine the other. The splinters are a light beige, beautiful and pointed. And excruciatingly painful if used on the right person.

"If you could call them people..." I mutter to myself.

"Ooh darling," my body freezes, at the slightest sound of his sarcastically sweet voice.

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