∴ blizzarding my thrummage swallowed beneath roar heavens collapse, gusts of claws thrashing fingers numb face sharp with diamond dust’s bite in the rage i am wholly pine, my pelt, tooth push, stumble, surge eddies carry clues of the cloaked lung-mist slicing wraiths i stagger. no. i dissolve into edge-less ache i am icelash, sleetrazor i am of the fury that dares fierce, unfettered, fang-loose, fur-clad self each flake a shard of shared hearth press my palm sinking into the velveteen frost not lost, not lonely but impossibly utterly attuned to the thusness the trembling, howling bramble-wrack of our storm-hewn root that peers past my husk ∴
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