This is such an amazing story. It is at once heartbreaking and beautiful, reflective and brutal.
A short story that wastes no words, that flows like poetry and brought tears to my eyes multiple times.
The perspectives are fresh, the details of the wider world are minimal but just enough to give you room to imagine further and the descriptions of the various pains and aches made me feel them myself.
A very powerful look at how we treat other sentient beings and the destructive tendencies of humans.