pencap:

“1. leave your soulmate behind in the house you grew up in.
leave a packed bag always waiting in the bottom of your closet.
pick it up and leave on one nondescript day and leave no note of explanation or apology or love.
and if your heart leaps to break out of your ribcage in protest, let it. bury it in the floorboards beneath your soulmate’s bed
and leave no gravestone to mark where it died. when the monsters come next time, they will find no threads to entrap you in and no heart to carve out of your chest.”

— excerpt from “how to become immortal” ( j.p. )