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.