prompt #97 - ash | "assimilation"

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Title: Assimilation
Challenge/Prompt: #97 - Ash 
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own psychics.
Summary: The implantations are like mouse droppings - wretched, stinking reminders of unwanted visitors.

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The scans are sharp and clear, exposing dark scarring and twisted wiring; she reads the damage inside her own mind and rages. Each mar in the mapping is an enemy outpost, surrendered ground, and if she could she would push her fingers through her ears and burn it all.

He is steady, soothing, gentle pressure. Destruction in the name of creation, he tells her. Their touch but in your reach, and everything is the same at its centre.

The most important lesson of all, if she is to carry them forward.

Take it and break it and make it ours.