From Bone to Blood to Flesh and Back Again
From Bone to Blood to Flesh and Back Again
The tall grass bowed in the strong winds that howled over the hills surrounding the manor. The sky was roiling with dark clouds that looked like an inverted landscape of its own, with crumbling gray hills and valleys that sometimes revealed glimpses of the lightning held within them, yet to be unleashed upon the earth. […]
A water droplet beaded at the end of my hair and dropped down to join the darkened wet spots on the carpet of my living quarters. Calling it my room felt wrong, it lacked any personal touches I had back home, like the childhood comics I’d cut out my favorite pages from to adorn the
The next few days passed in a blur of meetings and preparation. I felt unfocused, haunted by what I’d seen in that basement. Sometimes it felt like the Aberrant Witch’s hollow gaze still pressed against the back of my head, even though it was buried under a kilometer of concrete. “If anyone has any questions
“Director!” Conrad called out. Nell and I had followed Conrad through the compound to the large conference room and ended up intercepting the Director who was heading inside alongside a few of their subordinates. They stopped and turned with a tinge of good humour at their brow and lips. “Conrad,” they said. “I intended to
Nell spun on one foot and then stumbled as she tried to place her other foot back down. Her face flushed and she shot me an embarrassed look. “That’s totally normal,” I said. “Everyone does that at the start.” “You didn’t,” Nell replied as she tried again. I froze. “Huh?” Nell wavered on her legs
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Quinn poured over the latest results that were printed out and scattered over the floor. Her long hair masked her expression but our connection told me she was deep in thought, searching for patterns in the noise of data. Organ’s experiments were running concurrently around the globe, each team led by someone like Quinn. Over
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The cathedral bell rang inside my head, swinging from side to side, striking my skull and producing a head-aching sound that coursed down into the rest of my body, sparking a fire in every cell. It spread into the rats that covered every inch of the inside of the cathedral and they pulsated as well,
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The cracked concrete walls of the underground facility rattled with alien noises. I blinked, head heavy with exhaustion. A H.E.S.P. agent bumped past me as a group of medics sloshed through the water back towards the exit, carrying Daria on a stretcher. Neve followed after them and she hugged me briefly as she passed. She
Seth’s chest rose and fell as he swayed with the weight of the mismatched arms on his upper body. His silhouette was no longer easily distinguishable as human, with one arm fused to his side below his shoulder while the Aberrant’s massive arm was fused onto his back, behind his shoulder blade, opposite to his
The Painter, a corkscrew tower of images that even in stillness looked different with every passing second. Even the slightest of twitches threw its features around. I saw parts of faces at times in different spots on its body, a nose and philtrum, then a jaw and an ear. It was like at all times