Becoming something of a rite of passage.
Becoming something with inky tendrils and thrice-fanged maw.
Becoming something overblown and underfed.
Becoming something struggling against itself.
Becoming something at least darling.
Becoming something of it’s own making.
Becoming something right out of the scriptures.
Becoming something one cannot afford to lose.
Becoming something muddied.
Becoming something disagreeable, but contented.
Becoming something in the midst of all this machinery.
Becoming something to that effect.
-r. miller