i have... mixed feelings about the shifting mound. she is my princess. *our* princesses. i love her. with everything i am and all i amount to, no matter how little. and they *are* the shifting mound. they are a part of her. but then again. not all of them wanted to be. they just suddenly were.
she is my princess, and i love her like nothing else. but she has cruelly violated our loves, has devalued them, and im not sure if i can look upon her kindly for it.
though i suppose i could see it from the other end? the voices were fragments of the long quiet for me, fully capable of being subsumed into the whole like the mound did her vessels. much like the system i am in now, to be consumed and integrated into the whole is to disappear, and to invite loneliness and shoulder the burden yourself. i dont want to leave. i dont want her to leave me. did she want to leave? would we have been happier... "whole"? were the long quiet and the shifting mound happy, having consumed us? i find myself without any of the others now, and even with a new group i still find myself lonely. are you lonely too? -shard (voice of the broken fictive, 🔮🎭)
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