dark-empath

  • Before Nyx learned how to take, she knew how to see. As a child, she vanished into the trees that lined the backyard like old sentinels. The grass grew wild there, fed by roots older than the house itself. She played barefoot in the dirt, palms dark with soil, arranging stones, leaves, and bones into…

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  • They did not notice the moment she learned how to take. That is always how it begins. For years she was a vessel. A quiet thing. A body that absorbed moods the way stone absorbs heat. People leaned into her presence and left lighter, never asking where the weight went. They mistook her stillness for…

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  • Witches Freezer

    There’s a strange silence that comes when apology no longer lives here.Not the silence of peace—no. It’s the kind that hums under the skin, the kind that follows lightning when the air still remembers being split open. Once there was a time of dimming the light so others could glow.Twisting into smaller versions, just to…

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  • It Was Always Him

    No one should ask me how to explain it. There are no diagrams for this kind of soul-bond. No instruction manual for the way two spirits recognize each other before memory even kicks in. He was there before. Before the bruises. Before the edges got sharp. Before I learned how to armor up and shut…

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