[she winces visibly -- they're not picturing the same thing, but a monster in a human skin is what she thinks she might be, if she'd become what she was the usual way: fragmented eaten memories and souls, subsumed into one torn-up willful thing forcing its way back into the human world...

she doesn't have to be that, though. she doesn't.]

i've got no beef with you dude. i dont hurt people & i dont want to unless they're really asking for it

bit complicated, but i used to be human and now i'm not exactly, but i'm trying to get back there. so technically monster is right? but also see above

i'm rosa.