the wounds are open and bleeding out
Fuck. Fuck it all. Fuck!
Ronin could feel it, the way the dark and the monsters were beginning to fray him at the seams. The tricks they played, the appearance of another maybe-victim... Amalia stepped away and he could do nothing more than put his head in his hands, letting out a shuddering breath.
We can’t take the bodies with us, they’ll be too heavy. The boy may not even be real, he said helplessly, still slumped on his knees among the corpses. But there was no reprieve, no help - nothing to do but move forward.
Looking up, expression made all the more gaunt by the light that pooled around him, he beckoned for the two of them. ”Come on. Everyone into the light, we’ll move as quick as we can.”
Ronin could feel it, the way the dark and the monsters were beginning to fray him at the seams. The tricks they played, the appearance of another maybe-victim... Amalia stepped away and he could do nothing more than put his head in his hands, letting out a shuddering breath.
We can’t take the bodies with us, they’ll be too heavy. The boy may not even be real, he said helplessly, still slumped on his knees among the corpses. But there was no reprieve, no help - nothing to do but move forward.
Looking up, expression made all the more gaunt by the light that pooled around him, he beckoned for the two of them. ”Come on. Everyone into the light, we’ll move as quick as we can.”
THE
DARK STAR
