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He, too, was in costume after all—he pretended to be a slender boy with a
serious mouth and eyes always searching for Thomas, but strip that away,
and here was the truth.
He was a wretched thing, a rotten thing, a skeleton with his insides
already devoured by the forest.
It was too late to save him.

Andrew pressed his face into Thomas’s curls and thought of princes
with their hearts cut out. “I don’t know.”
Liar. But he’d always been one.
Instead, he whispered, “Would you die for me?”
Thomas sounded warm and cottony with sleep. “Of course I would.”

He hadn’t needed to hit Thomas twice.
But he had.
Thomas wiped his mouth. “Okay.” He sounded calmer. “Okay, good.”
This is all they were, at the end of it all, boys with stomachs empty and
concave, waiting to be filled by Wickwood and forests and rot.

absolutely loving the asexual representation in this...and the monsters too but y'know

“Are you scared of me?” Thomas’s voice was small.
“No,” Andrew said. “We’ll stop this. Everything that starts has a way to
end.”

“I think someday you’ll hate me.” Thomas’s voice stretched with a
loneliness Andrew had never heard before. “You’ll cut me open and find a
garden of rot where my heart should be.”

Andrew let the silence sharpen between them, waited until Thomas’s
breath caught in quiet anguish from being made to wait.

“When I cut you open,” Andrew finally said, “all I’ll find is that we
match.”