“Damien pressed his hand against the side of his head and for the first time winced from the dull throb beating beneath his fingers. It was as if the very sight unfolding before him were eating at his grey matter and sending him headlong into some kind of mad oblivion. But he didn’t have the time to wonder about his own mental health. The cell-block had teeth, literal mouths in place of barred doors, and they were all gnashing, chattering, slavering, and howling. Some had lips, others just folde...d, crooked skin. Most were hurling obscenities and blasphemies in a cacophony of whispers too meek to be coming out of openings as tall as doors. There was a man in the cell-block, too; someone in a uniform was sauntering down the row of gnashing mouths and rattling a baton against teeth as he passed them. The recognition was instant. Damien’s cousin Henry wasn’t a particularly noteworthy man, but he was tall, stork thin, and had a long nose which, along with a full head of black hair, sometimes made him look like a crow.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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