The Best Of Galaxy’s Edge 2013-2014 (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
C. Norton Ever since Mads carved me, he has spoken of the day when he will make me his. Today is no exception. “Your skin will part like apple-flesh,” he tells me, “and the meat beneath is white. Did you know that, Pluto? That inside, you are as white as I?” His fingers trace the slope of my cheek up to my scalp and into the stalks of my hair. He tugs—I am sure he thinks he is being gentle, but Mads is never gentle—and it takes everything I have not to react. Like most humans, Mads does not believe we can feel pain, and I have never set him straight. If he does not know that he can hurt me, he will not bother to try. So I keep my face blank as I polish his second-best pair of shoes and say only, “So you have told me, Gartner Poulson.” When he caresses me, I dare not use his given name. “You’re a good neep,” he tells me. But that is the problem—I am no longer a neep. I am nearly full-grown, and when I begin to flower I will be diced and shaved and julienned in the name of Mads Poulson’s hunger.
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