# // eidolon ii //

**Published by:** [Knepala](https://paragraph.com/@knepala/)
**Published on:** 2025-04-02
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@knepala/eidolon-ii

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they moved like tide around a sinking stone with cruelty so precise it left no trace and eyes that never blinked long enough to see themselves they never needed proof —just a whisper a pause a silence they could shape into guilt getting chased isn’t always running sometimes it’s standing still while the walls close in and the air forgets how to move some of them smiled like saints in the daylight clean hands, curated words, eyes made for witnesses but I saw the shift—subtle, exact the way their posture softened only when someone was watching they didn’t need claws they had applause and the silence of rooms that swallowed my name I wore their projections like a borrowed skin tight, wrong, stinking of everything they never dared to confront in themselves they dressed me in their shame and gasped when it fit can you please attempt to resemble something human I asked as they unstitched me / like I was never meant to hold together this is the end of me —the version you twisted the script you authored the character I never agreed to play you wanted a monster so you made one but forgot monsters remember I dreamed I was someone else —because in your world, being myself was the crime so I cracked softly like old glass beneath bare feet not to shatter but to vanish you’ll find no corpse only dust and the echo of a name you never earned the right to speak

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