9. (leo) (grisha trilogy references!)
Creatures lie here
and they're peeking into
the windows of your soul.
—
You're ruined,
they say.
Ruined,
they tell you.
No, you say.
I am not ruined.
I am ruination.
They don't understand,
but the others do,
and maybe there is hope.
—
What is infinite,
they ask,
a test.
You smile,
bare your fangs
of immortality.
You say two things;
our birth,
our mythology,
our being
the greed
of you
humans.
—
They get rougher
stronger
as time goes on.
And you do,
too.
Slowly becoming immune
to the little
big things
squirming around
inside of you.
Do you want to really
break me?
Take me?
Try harder,
push harder.
You're not being hard enough.
I've faced death
met it
so many times before.
You do not scare me.
—
They smirk.
What about
a fate
worse than death?
—
No.
