It wasn’t all bad, though ; the beating granted him strange insights; he realized, rather unhelpfully, that had he and Ybon not been serious the captain would probably never have fucked with him. Proof positive that he and Ybon had a relationship . Should I celebrate, he asked the dresser, or should I cry? Other insights? One day while watching his mother tear sheets off the beds it dawned on him that the family curse he’d heard about his whole life might actually be true. Fuku . He rolled the word experimentally in his mouth. Fuck you.
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