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I took the hit without an ounce of pain, felt the air punched fros, but I felt like I didn’t ed the him to the floor so hard that it felt like the cabin would crack right down the middle

Claire screa

I dragged hi the cattle skull to snap his neck

He was too strong, fightingand yank it so I’d trip

On the cold ground, unaware of the Malevolent that probably swarmed me from all sides, I dropped s, and stabbed hiht in the stomach

Again

And again

He i li his exposed intestines

“Ahh!” I kept stabbing and stabbing, blood spraying everywhere, splashing h, not for what he’d just tried to do, not for the thought that crossed his mind

When he was a gutted aniround underneath him, I stopped I breathed The adrenaline faded because the job was done I’d murdered someone—and didn’t feel an ounce of remorse

I expected to be apprehended, grabbed by the neck and dragged away, but nothing happened

My breaths were pants, ht I lifted my chin and looked around me

I was surrounded by the Malevolent

They did nothing

Only stared

I washed off and changed before I went back to Claire

Because all the blood on my hands, my clothes, my face…would just make it worse

She was in the corner where she’d scurried away, her ar

“It’s okay It’s okay” I moved into the corner with her, and when I opened my arms to hold her, she rushed into my embrace “Shh…” My hand cupped the back of her head, and I rocked her slowly, like she was a baby “He’s gone”