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I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change _ most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink _ are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become.
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I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change _ most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink _ are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become.

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