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Mark

It was impossible forof my heartbeat transforhit was that I sat there, hearing at first, and then feeling the thu It was as if time had slowed and thickened

Eventually I started to sense the coruscation of electricity flowing across the cells of my heart, the way some people can see sound as colours It was beautiful, the way those twinkling, crackling sparks danced across the thickeach individual contraction Over and over and over Endlessly

Then I remember the intense irritation when I sensed the presence of another in my vicinity Interruption, intrusive and unwelcome I felt another heartbeat, faster than ht when I realised I could feel the electricity coursing through their heart as well as my own I reached out and touched the sparks, and saw them flicker at the contact, and pause, then resu the current and watching as it flowed towards iving electrical impulse was diverted ift And then there were no ent and dissonant I opened ht in the rooet in a Scottish winter - grey and dull I noticed a few peculiarities then, one by one, as if in slow motion

First, there were people in the roo mildly annoyed Snake Eyes too, but he looked worried Two otherbetween them It was the body of Snake Eyes' partner in crinised his face just as I saw the open staring eyes of a dead er hurt The nails appeared to have fallen to the floor - the top halves of them, anyway When I liftedthe leather straps in the process, I saw the rest of the nails still buried in the wood My hands were covered in blood, but it had dried, and the wounds had beco over azed at him in confusion for a few seconds before I realised that he thought I'd killed his friend A few seconds after that, I realised that he was right