Really powerful! It's interesting seeing how your style adapts to the pov, too. It felt fresh and very immediate, but still gorgeous as ever. 

Two of my favourite lines:

"One tangle of limbs is not unlike another: you in your soft beds, we in our coiled heaps, all breathing."

"The pulse that drives you is our drums in the deep; our hollow hearts, still beating."

This whole piece has a very poetic structure. Thank you!

This is so powerful, and moving - and beautiful. 'What remains of you in us still sings' - indeed, but it seems to me that you've given the orcs their own song, too. I loved reading this - thank you.

Just as beautiful the second time

what remains of you in us still sings

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Very thought-provoking and well written!

This was so beautiful, it felt so malinchonic like remembering a long time ago where things were different. I felt like they were trying not to use that little part of humanity left in them

Drums in the deep, still beating. This is very powerful.

Gorgeous as always, and so very moving. Each echo of what the Orcs once were, and the pieces of that that they still hold dear, even now, even if mirrored differently, is so beautifully incisive.

"On the coldest nights, when the sky’s deep dome opens, what remains of you in us still sings. The fear cleans our ancient wounds; in our terror, we still revere the stars." Gorgeous and haunting.

"The pulse that drives you is our drums in the deep; our hollow hearts, still beating." Powerful!