Content Warning: contains intimate descriptions of nether corruption

I saw it in my dreams. Ashley –notAshley reaching forward with tentacles of icky darkness and

possessive and mine mine mine you’re mine no I’m not I’m me I’m mine you can’t have me I’m me I’m mine-

touching me, writhing, wriggling into my tether and corrupting and possessing and

mine mine mine you’re mine no I’m not you can’t have me I’m mine not yours I’m me I’m mine-

into my head, and I could see, see the Ashley-notAshley and its

darkness-not darkness half-light and shadows-notshadows and weird and wrong and

tether and ownership, how it owned me,

but I’m me you can’t have me I’m me mine mine mine everything is mine

and what owned it, a six winged, angry shadow-notshadow twisted thing that looked a bit like Mastima but wasn’t even though it once was and

you’re mine I own you I own everything this world is mine mine mine like all worlds and everything no I’m me I’m mine you can’t have me you can’t have it we won’t let you I’m me I’m mine you can’t have me or us or the Earth or Aether we won’t let you mine mine mine everything is mine

what owned it, a dark and terrible thing

mine no mine I’m me mine I’m mine mine you mine can’t have me mine I’m mine me I’m mine mine you own you can’t have me I’m mine no no no you can’t have me everything is mine you can’t have this world we won’t let you you can’t stop me, you’re mine no I’m not I’m me I’m mine you can’t own me I’m me I’m Layla you can’t have me mine

beyond comprehension,

Mine

larger beyond belief,

Mine

A whole world filled with possessiveness and the need to make everything

mineminemine

and I seal it in a box, except it’s not in a box I’m in a box and its around me, like a chest of consciousness at the bottom of an ocean of

mineminemine no you can’t have me mineminemine no I’m me I’m mine you can’t have me mine

Nyx, and it wants in and I want out but I can’t because then it will own me and I don’t want it I’m me

Mine

and I’m mine

no, you’re mine

and I don’t want to let it in

yes you do

because I like being me

but being mine is so much better

and I’d rather be mine

no you wouldn’t, you just don’t know it yet

even though I’m truly not

see? You’re mine

no I’m not I’m Layla Tov I belong to my family and humanity and you’re not welcome