A/N: Written for The Snakes and Ladders Challenge (Lust) and the Character Diversity Boot Camp (#47 – decadent), both from the Fullmetal Alchemist: A Bit of Everything Forum.
lust abate
she is lust but her being is not filled with desire for human flesh
but something else: a desire she cannot name
nor put a face towards
maybe it is a fear in her heart, a fear that had followed her
through birth, and beyond
where her memories grew indistinct and dim
and she chose not to look towards
those stinging pains that would ripple through her face and form
and cling like leeches to her soul
but, maybe, deep inside she wanted them
to suck her dry and whittled like a bone
so that sleeping beast within her very being
can abate its long in denial hunger.
