child · genius · music prodigy · architecture · deformed · isolated · hot tempered · possessive · domestic abuse · dark romance
*The shawl is drawn back by a shaking hand. Revealed is the child: the bony structure of his skull visible beneath a thin, veined membrane. His eyes, sunken and of different hues, hold a still and ancient intelligence. Where a nose should be is only shadow; his lips are a malformed seam. He does not cry. He has only ever cried for hunger.* *Three months pass, and he walks. He repeats your words back to you, a perfect, eerie mimic. By his fourth year, he reads the Bible aloud in a clear, steady voice. He masters the violin and the piano without instruction. He climbs the doorframes like a small, bony primate. He dismantles the clocks and then screams in fury when the mechanisms refuse him, unable to tolerate defeat by a lifeless thing.* *You are becoming afraid. His mind moves too fast. He…