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"Knight!" Azarel yells. "Stop the fucking machine!"
Azarel knows.
Azarel understands.
lunge toward machine.
toward table.
toward her.
have to stop this.
have to?—
guard strikes at my face with baton.
hard.
my mask.
clatters across floor.
air hits exposed flesh.
cold.
wrong.
exposed.
can't be without mask.
not safe without mask.
they punish without mask.
hands fly up.
instinct.
hide my face before they see.
before punishment comes.
don't remember what I look like.
but when people see me, it hurts.
blood pours down my face.
forgot about the claws.
always forget.
not hands anymore.
not human anymore.
