Someone can be madly in love with you and still

not be ready. They can love you in a way you have

never been loved and still not join you on the
bridge. And whatever their reasons you must
leave. Because you never ever have to inspire
anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever
have to convince someone to do the work to be
ready. There is more extraordinary love, more
love that you have never seen, out here in this
wide and wild universe And there is the love that
will be ready.
Cherry sugar dripping from ruby-stained lips of
ecstasy. A belly of roses that prick like thorns.
Drown me in pain. Drown me in your life like
murder only half-accomplished. Both dead and
alive in the eyes of your split and spattered heart.
Let arrows sink through pomegranate love until
her juices run heavy. Let acid make pain where
there isn’t and evoke beggings of mercy. Let your
soul be a river. Let my eyes be checkmate.
Coulter becomes even more beast-like as she
begins to mirror her own daemon’s movements in
cradling Benjamin’s body and picking at his hair.
That all came from Wilson’s work with Brian
Fisher, the puppeteer behind the monkey
daemon. (Puppets were created to stand in for
the daemons on set, while animation house
Framework uses CGI for the screen.) “Ruth had
wanted to incorporate some simian movements
to her portrayal, and there are a number of
occasions in the first season adopting a more
simian-like pose,” Tranter remembers. “It was
entirely her idea that, when she attacked
Benjamin, not only would she shoot him and bring
him to the ground, she would then go at him as a
monkey would. We saw her rehearsal and we
said, ‘Just do it.’ It was quite an extraordinary
moment when that happens