That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters room. She tells her daughter that the creatures afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She takes a tube of lipstick and drags it across her finger like a knife, marking it across her daughters cheeks, red, blood, war paint.
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