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Night is just a word here; they don’t understand its true meaning. They don’t know the absolute enveloping black, freezing like the caress of the dead. They don’t know the brilliancy of stars, too far to reach, but infinitely close to scorch away lies of daylight.
Perhaps Leon knows; remembers a time when his people burnt their gods and slept naked in the bitter cold night. Maybe that’s why he holds me so tightly in his sleep. Doesn’t he know, or does he simply choose to ignore, I’m darker than the night? I will scar him deeper than the stars.