my heart's beating; is it serious?

[Tayui Aston]

Queen of Piety Cemetary, late afternoon, Tayui's in her lupus form.
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[/html]Since visiting AniWaya and finding Anu, she hadn’t ventured out to Halifax. When she had been a member of Jaded Shadows, her excursions to the nearby city had been a regular fact of life, but as she’d aged, these trips had become less and less frequent. Maybe it was because she didn’t want anything from the city or that the city simply had less to offer: there was less that surprised or shocked her anymore and very little that she did find was in working condition. In the years she’d been living, a lot of the human items had disintegrated to the point of being unusable. She recalled the books she’d once owned with fond memories. Most were wet, damaged, or eaten by animals and insects. They were a rare treasure these days.

Even though she’d come all this way, she had nothing to show for it except a small bite to eat. She chewed on the bone of a rabbit slowly. She had been quick to devour the small creature, but took her time sucking out the marrow in its bones and was now gnawing on what little was left. The sun was hot and the day was humid, so she had taken her meal under the shade of a tree. There were a lot of trees in the cemetery now. She didn’t remember it being this shaded the last time she’d been here, but she supposed that had been quite a long time ago and she hadn’t been paying attention to such things.[html]

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