by Samantha McManus » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:54 pm
"I'm a little girl's nightmares. I'm a wolf that would gnaw its own leg off to get out of a snare, but I'm also the patient one that would wait for the hunter to return so I could devour him."
It may well be Leo's imagination, but as Sam is talking she seems to cast three separate shadows.
"I'm a flock of crows picking over a battlefield. I'm the last thing you'll see when you leave this world because in the end the crows are the only ones who win in wars."
Leo starts to get the impression of hundreds of eyes watching him from all around them.
"I'm the cuckoo's egg nobody expected, who can't be contained by her own skin, and I had to fight for years to figure out how to just be..."
The shadows settle back into one, and the sensation of being watched fades.
"...to be Sam."