She smiled, and her smile was the worst part—genuine, sad, and full of love. “Did you? Or did you bury the part of you that could love me back? The instinct you’ve unleashed doesn’t want to destroy you. It wants to hold you. To keep you safe from a world that was never safe for you.”
: To survive the "Kind Nightmares," the protagonist has to reject the instinctual urge to seek comfort. The "kindness" offered by the entity is a "plague rat in human form"—a terrifying transformation that requires the character to become equally cold to survive. 4. Key Takeaways for Chapter 9 : The subversion of safety. Instinct Unleashed -Ch.9- -Kind Nightmares-