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The Butterfly Eater

A tale lost to the eyes of an opened box She watched the terrors frenzied frolics there gasps of unbreathed unstagnant air Each horror quickly surpassed her pupils fully blown then something stunning ripped her gaze a multi faceted beauty her head tilted to the sun eyes tasting sunlights warmth her sloping swanish nape like mountain side unscaled Watching this beauty she couldn't grasp The evil she understood their shallow shapes and deformed moulds portents of their will This water coloured feint unsure but with the parting of those perfect lip she understood as she swallowed the satin winged beauty her envy of the pure so obvious the butterfly eater unchained

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