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I looked down at the back of aped up at the sky, at the cloud above, as droplets fell upon us more rapidly, until a shower of the thick red liquid pounded against the deck

Blood

It’s raining blood

Chapter 6: Ben

Even as I stared at the blood in horror,to rein in my bloodlust, ashamed that I could be so under its control even at a tithrough the droplets of blood

And then I heard it

A voice, , to tell

It started out quiet, so quiet that I could barely understand what it was saying Then it grew louder and louder, until it was echoing in my ears so loudly that the words couldn’t be mistaken:

"Come back, Benjamin Novak"

My na voice repeated again and again in some kind of sinister chant I clutched my ears, as if that would make any difference

"We knoho you are, and we knohat you want"

We? Who’s we?

I staggered to the edge of the ship, clutching the sides and staring up at the sky, blood now strea preoccupied,for the blood I reached up tothe blood, and thenhuman blood

"Come back, Benjamin Novak…"

Suddenly the tattoo seared severely--ave way beneath me and I fell to the deck, crouched on all fours as I clenched ainst the pain

By my side, River crouched down and touched , I could barely see Then I felt a different type of sensation--a burning not just in ed on et out of the sun"

The sun It had broken through the sky

The blood stopped The cloud vanished

The pain inaway, I crawled toward the shelter