Flesh and Bone

You were once so haughty, so powerful, so sure of yourself. You were in control.

But where are you now? You're lying there, bleeding out as you realize the indignity of the world. It is the pain you feel when you get up from your hospital bed, it's the miss-step and the trip-and-fall on the school stairs you scaled with ease, the scars that you no longer see but can still feel as phantom pains from long ago. The tear in the flesh, the suffering feeding that chasm born with you in your heart.

It is the nightmares of your greatest fall. And the eyes. Those great, scornful, hateful golden eyes staring down upon you from where you were thrown. This is your indignity, Cecile.

Can you trust again? Can you be yourself again? Or can you be something else, someone else?

Someone better than ever before?

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