Hard Crush Fetish Beatrice Rabbit -

She began collecting hard things: river stones, walnut shells, marbles lost by badgers. She kept them in a tin beneath her carrot bed. At night, when the warren slept, she would take one out and press it between her palms. Her breath would quicken. Her whiskers would twitch. And then—she would crush it. Against the hearthstone, between two bricks, under the heel of her boot. Crack, crunch, shatter. Each break sent a shiver up her spine. She loved the moment of resistance, that final snap when hardness surrendered to her will.

She placed it on the anvil of her secret workbench—a flat stone under the weeping willow. She raised a hammer. Her paw shook. The geode gleamed up at her, innocent and invincible. She thought of all the things she’d crushed: the eggs of the thrush (empty, she told herself), the jawbone of a shrew (already dead), the little glass bead from the badger’s bracelet (he never missed it). Each one had been a door to a dark, sweet room. And now the geode was the grandest door of all. Hard Crush Fetish Beatrice Rabbit

But the feeling grew.