...eventually. ( Red didn't think she would be able to - thought the water would suck her down inside of it, spit her back out where she was made for. )

He's even worse than a man. He's a god, and I'm like a fucking... weapon to be wielded by him. No reason to explain anything to me. I'm no different than any of his other powers or abilities or shit to him, like a piece of the landscape. I know he sure as fuck didn't mean to make me so... human-like.

( She bites down on her tongue a bit hard enough she tastes blood, closes her eyes, swallows down the liquor and the blood too. It's impossible to describe really what it's like - to be a monster but not, to be young but not, to be not really enough of anything. People want to leave this place. Vanessa left to return to her own world. Some day they all will (and she'll be running, or she'll be dragged back into the Underworld and be destroyed). None of them belong here, together- )

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