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alone here with no family by blue_is_very_confused
Fandoms: The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo
03 Oct 2026
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His hands are redder than anything he’s ever seen, and the red rises halfway to his elbows. The stifling pain doesn’t let up, nor does the lump in his throat or the black spots at the edges of his vision.
You’ve burned yourself before, he tells himself, shutting his eyes and taking a deep breath.
Not like this, the child in him whispers.
We’ll be alright. We were alright before.
But it wasn’t like this, the child protests, frightened and sharp.
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or, peter burns himself when vilna lutz is gone.
(day three: burns; day eleven (again): too weak to cry; day fifteen: numbness; day twenty-three: loss of senses; and day twenty-five: trust issues)
Series
- Part 3 of blue’s whumptober 2026
- Part 1 of on becoming a family
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