REAPER

I suffer because of myself. It is my own soul all the time that is bothering me.

[misswallflower]

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

[winterswake]

[lucapalermos-blog]

The Marubo tribe from Africa believes that no one in their tribe can ever safely leave Marubo. Sometimes Marubo children sneak away to Cape Town but the elders are smart.  They keep everyone’s soul in a jar. The kids have to come back for their souls. If they don’t, they die soulless. And a lot of them do.

What they’re trying to say is nothing’s worse than leaving your tribe. Not even dying. Maybe we’re the tribe of Palos Verdes. You and me. You keep my soul, and I keep yours. We stick together, no matter what.