[They cannot help but flinch when the words wick across their consciousness, unwanted and unasked for. "Monster" carries its own set of grisly connotations, heavy with hypocrisy and leaden with dread. Reminders of what it feels like, to witness a small child impaled through with bones or vines or spears, scalded with the flames of someone who claims to want them safe.]
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[They cannot help but flinch when the words wick across their consciousness, unwanted and unasked for. "Monster" carries its own set of grisly connotations, heavy with hypocrisy and leaden with dread. Reminders of what it feels like, to witness a small child impaled through with bones or vines or spears, scalded with the flames of someone who claims to want them safe.]
"Monster" is too kind a word for what I am.