The grey haired, dead eyed, wheelchair bound, malnourished old skeleton of a woman sat dead as a corpse after being embalmed as I pulled the cloth down from her mouth. While my eyes were distracted by all the dust and mold that filtered into the air while pulling the cloth down that I had not seen her mouth yet. The cloth, stained with blood and mucus, actually was gauze, the off-brand Rite-Aid type of gauze.
When my head raised back to eye level with the old woman, I made the discovery that caused my bowels to empty themselves all over the adjacent paint peeled wall. I had not eaten that day which made the stomach acid rise and splash. After a few more dry heaves and many cracks of my ribs, I was able to more closely analyze the old woman’s mouth.
Leaning in very closely, already having dealt with the worst stomach-turning event of my life, it was very clear that someone had sewn the old woman’s mouth shut, double stitch
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The look in the woman’s face was that of a consoling nature. She knew she was going to tell me something that was going to change the course of my life, past and present, forever. The inscription on her cheek disappeared, leaving fresh purified skin in its place. We had a connection, that was clear, something in my heart recognized her when she was decrepit and old and now that feeling grew stronger and more intense as she had dispersed of that shell and became a young vibrant girl.The inscription on my palm was still well apart and far from gone. It had lost its glow, but it was still very visible and easy to read, if you knew how to read Latin. All of my other aliments had been rid of my body and I felt better than ever before. Now I just had these nagging questions about who this girl was, why she was trapped in such horrible surroundings, and why I had a keen feeling of having met her or known her at some point in my life.
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The demon woman was flat out, full diving towards me as I scrambled to crab crawl myself as far away from her as I could. Her fresh, young arms were outstretched with ferocious claws leading the way. Her blonde hair slicked back against the wind speed she had created. She would have made a hell of a bodyguard for a President or celebrity, diving in front of supersonic bullets taking the hit to protect the asset she was assigned to. If only she were a good guy, someone fighting for righteousness and the wellbeing of humanity, and not an evil demon woman seeking to ravage the world only to take it over as her new domicile.Crawling backwards as fast as possible, I finally slammed my head into the hardwood bannister of the second-floor balcony. That was the most distance I could cover in that amount of time with the space allotted to me. Luckily, Todd was tucked nice and tight to the wall directly to the right of the door the demon woman was d
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As the demon woman laid limply on my tensed nervous body, we fell to the hardwood floor at speed that felt like an eternity. Time was so extremely slowed, I feared I had already died, and this was going to be my hell for the rest of my soul’s existence. We had yet to hit the floor, my fire orange palm still firmly applying pressure and pain to the demon woman, something inexplicable happened.The glossy black slime had slithered back out from the crack in the wall that it had sneakily squeaked through and hid much earlier in the adventure. The puddle was much smaller in size but had instead compressed itself into a thicker composition, like a glossy black pancake inches tall. My neck wrenched back to focus on the demon woman, she did not stand a chance against my powerful Latin etched glowing hand. At least my min
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Just as before, a massive roar bellowed from the beast that was almost completely through the maple wood door. The entire house shook as if we were enduring a small earthquake and the rest of the windows exploded in a symphony of skin slicing, blood inducing glass. Todd fell to the floor, slamming his knees through the floor but, he also dropped the pendant and necklace. I managed to track where it fell as my eyes bounced from flying glass, to the soon to be mobile demon boy, the demon lady, and the massive contortionist arm stretching out from the door over the balcony railing.When Todd fell and managed to slam his knees through the floor, luckily, he was still under the pendant’s power so there was no damage done to him physically. That being said, he instantly dropped the pendant that gave us a chance, large or small, against whatever monstrosity was about to join the demon filled Mrs. Tannell search party. I had to get to it, we could
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