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But moans are just words that forgot their shape.

She stirs. Her eyes find mine. Most things look at me and see a corpse. She looks at me and sees a question mark with a pulse.

She blinks. Then, impossibly, she smiles. “You’re trying to say I translate the whole. Or maybe… you make me whole. ” warm bodies mtrjm kaml

(R places his forehead against hers. No biting. Just pressure. Just a question waiting for an answer. Outside, the Bonies grind their teeth in the dark. But inside the plane, time stutters. A piano chord that was silent for years suddenly plays itself once, then stops.)

But now, inside this ribcage—this dusty apartment where my heart used to live—something is scratching at the floorboards. It wants out. It wants to spell. But moans are just words that forgot their shape

I whisper it against her skin. My lips are cracked. My voice is a rusty hinge. But the sound… it doesn't die. It hangs in the cold air like breath. Like proof.

“Trans… late… com… plete.”

We are the same wrong thing, finally correct.

Before her, my vocabulary was small. Hungry. Cold. Grr. Argh. Lights out. Most things look at me and see a corpse

“What did you say?” she whispers.