Literature
Blood and Lust: Affection
Elske is conflicted. She remembers love, remembers the bonds she had with her family, but those moments feel like they belong to someone else, someone not her
Anders is sleeping; his slightly muscular chest rises and falls with each breath of air and Elske watches, watches the skin stretch, the long dark red scar across his torso moving as he breathes.
She examines him closely, sure that he is deep in sleep and will not wake easily.
Ever so slowly she reaches a hand out, one bony finger tracing the scar across his chest. Tracing all the markings on his skin, ones she has now memorized for scars are not marks of weakness
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