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“Kodiak is dead. The tumor Rover extracted was just a hint of how much was growing in his body.
The universe has no light in it anymore.
I will join him tonight.
Hug your Kodiak close to you.
I love you. - Ambrose #13”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Settle into kissing Ambrose as soon as possible. You'll enjoy it very much, and you'll only have time for so many kisses.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“I like my hand, my blipping brain decides. It's a beautiful hand.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from popular music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank. Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us