Midnight Robber

Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!

She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.

Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.

This was a thing she’d not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal’s secret body just to eat it.

She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.

Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)