Growth, in spite of

[Oyster.]

Only through great sacrifice can one become more.

What a person truly needs to grow endlessly is desperation.

I don't know what I want to become.
All I know is that it has to be something else.

I don't know what I'm looking at in the mirror.
All I know is that I despise it.

- - -

I'll change everything. I'll sacrifice everything, I'll claw at every advantage. To find this concept of 'completeness'.

This empty, miserable hole that's been inside of me since the day I was left behind as a runt.

It can't be filled with mana, nor flesh, nor blood, nor bone, nor flesh, nor vim, nor love, nor flesh, nor hate, nor passion, nor flesh, nor vigor, nor flesh, nor water, nor flesh, nor flesh, nor flesh, nor flesh, nor flesh, nor flesh, nor flesh, n