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" We are all so many people; a hundred burgeoning personalities confined within a single body. I am weak, I am strong. I am afraid, I am courageous. I am a vessel, I am the fluid that fills it. Akaten was languorous beneath me, and I was not the person who had swooned in the arms of the stranger in the shrine. I felt powerful, twice as tall, capable of anything, but entirely tender. My lovemaking was as gentle as the dew around us. When I slid into him, he opened for me like a flower. He was a lily on the water, and I rode him slowly, so slowly, to the shore. "
― Storm Constantine , The Thorn Boy