Appetite For An Innocent Heart

The fairy prince
stepped out of a plate,
ceramic, roasted and glossed,
one that pictured him
as a ruler
of a tiny kingdom.
Handsome
fancy,
and alone.
The fairy prince
was not a fey at all
but a changeling
teeth tucked
claws clipped and filed
green skin covered,
with dandy wear.
And the appetite for an innocent heart?
hidden
until the very end.

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