Bound in Their Bones

Benjamin straightens his posture, and lets the tension in his wrists soften. He must maintain decorum with grace in the face of his parents; otherwise he is simply nothing but something they did not intend to create. He will be nothing like when he was younger. He will not show off the face of a heathen determined to wear the dirt and mud like other boys, and will instead show that he is better than them; better than all of them.

After all, how many can say that they've worn a disguise of a woman for fifteen years?

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the story of a transboy getting taken by pirates and learning to not hate his own skin