[August 20] [Original] Only Inhuman

Title: Only Inhuman
Day / Theme: August 20 -- sleeping underneath your skin
Rating: G
Series: Original (pre-Library, or the other Library)
Character: Atel, mention of Kien and Bethina
Summary: Atel wonders why she doesn't feel like what she is. (Hint? She isn't after all.)
Notes: Were we RaTs, this would be a perfect pocky. Since we are not, it's a drabble, and it makes me sadface for... certain reasons.


I can feel, in places, the ways things could be different. It’s like the feeling of not having a tooth, a lack where there should be something. Which is silly, really. I am just a human girl with all the usual bits. I don’t see why I should have a thing under my skin wanting at me to be something or someone else altogether.

Sometimes I think about seeing what I could do to fix it. I wouldn’t want to scare mom or Kien, though, and I think they worry about me.

That’s silly, too. I don’t do anything wrong.