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toastyglow:

In a dark, colorless space, grown rabbit tells a smaller rabbit, "I love you, little one. More than anything."ALT
A pink cartoon heart appears in the smaller rabbit's chest. It replies, "Even this part of me?" and the larger rabbit says, "Oh...darling..."ALT
Where the larger rabbit once stood, there is a wolf, looming over the frightened small rabbit. The pink heart seems to be pounding. "I love you," says the wolf, emphasizing the last word. "That isn't part of you, not really."ALT
The smaller rabbit's heart seems to be pounding still harder as the wolf's huge jaws open around its chest. "In fact," the wolf goes on, "I'm quite certain you'd be happier without it."ALT
The smaller rabbit lies alone, a bloody gash opened under its throat, the pink heart lying torn in two nearby.ALT
The smaller rabbit runs in fear to a green place, still bleeding, carrying the pieces of its heart in its mouth. ALT
The smaller rabbit finds itself in a world of color, arrayed in a rainbow. It is now entirely pink.ALT
Within its chest, its shining heart has begun to stitch itself back together.ALT
Its ear twitches as an off-screen voice says, "You know...this is hard for me, too."ALT
The smaller rabbit turns to see the larger one, some distance away, still contained within a dark, colorless box. The larger rabbit continues, "You never want to talk anymore. And I'm always afraid you'll get angry with me if I use the wrong word for one of your...colors."ALT
Close on the larger rabbit, who is weeping. "This isn't you," it says. The text of "this" is pink. "I shouldn't have to learn about it to love you. Can't you come back inside where it's safe? Can't you leave that thing out there? I miss you."ALT
"I miss my kid," it says. But the words are overlaid on text in the wolf's color, which reads, "I miss who you pretended to be to please me."ALT