The Monster Mash
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But Satoru looks anything but afraid. She looks like the cat who got the cream. She pushes up onto her knees, rounds the table like a predator, and for the first time in Suguru’s chequered history, she is worried she’ll be devoured. “Afraid of you?” Satoru drawls, her figure long and languid. She eats into Suguru’s space, forcing her backwards until she can taste Satoru’s regal scent – cloves, lavender, neroli. “Never.”
“You shouldn’t—get too close—”
“Why?” she asks. “Worried you’ll bite me?”
“Yes. Satoru—”
“What if I want you to?” Her voice has lowered into something sensational – rich and husky and rife with desire. “What if I’ve been thinking about your teeth in me since I first figured you out?”
(For Suguru, love is about restraint. Satoru shows her differently.)
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- Part 1 of The Monster Mash
- Part 2 of la primavera (transfem suguru hours)
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As such, it goes like this – Suguru Geto takes his last breath on the Uji Bridge, but it is not the conclusion he expects. Instead, it’s a footnote. Because moments later, the audience calls for an encore, and he gasps like a newborn. He takes his first breath, again, and this will be Mark II. He has as little choice in it as he did the first time, when his mother’s cryptic pregnancy came to fruition on their kitchen floor.
The first thing he notices is the afternoon sky. It’s still bright with sun and broken up by infant clouds, all of which have moved a little to the east since he last saw them. The wind is lazy. March is coming to a close, and the scent of sakura is teasing at the horizon.
The second thing he notices is a boy. He’s sitting on the balustrade, chewing a wad of strawberry gum. He has string-bean limbs and hair as pale as lilies. His tea-shades are too dark to see behind, and there’s a plaster wrapped around one of his thumbs. Beneath the hem of his basketball shorts, a pair of grass-stained knees.
“Yo,” he says.
(In which Death is a teenage boy, and Suguru is forced to live ad infinitum.)
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- Part 2 of The Monster Mash