"When you're the one doing the killing. When it's not just standing in the aftermath, but a process and you're there from the beginning. When it's not just cold and running in the gutter, but warm on your skin."
Her boys painted red stripes beneath her eyes, with her first real kill. It ran in warm red tears down her cheeks and she never saw her face in a mirror that night, but it became a habit of hers all the same.
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Date: 2007-12-24 10:58 am (UTC)Her boys painted red stripes beneath her eyes, with her first real kill. It ran in warm red tears down her cheeks and she never saw her face in a mirror that night, but it became a habit of hers all the same.
Wear it, so you own it.