Order of the Dead
““You’re patient zero, aren’t you?”
“No,” the man said. The single, heavily-accented word echoed through the alley, the force of its message rattling the snowflakes in their orchestrated somersaults.
Alan took a step backward as the flicker that had been playing on the liquor bottles stopped, the flame finally drowned by the rising pool of molten wax. He felt the chill of the charred wick, cocooned in a cooling mold, never to burn again.
“I am not,” the man said. He untucked his legs and Alan sa...w the work of the Krok. The man’s left leg ended above the knee, and his right leg ended mid-shin.
The terminus of the right leg was covered by the pinned folds of a pant leg, but the stump of thigh that was the remains of his left leg was an exposed collection of open sores, red, and blue, and green, and filled with pus. Two of the sores were framing broken pustules that were oozing a yellow-green fluid even in the bitter cold.
Alan made his mouth into a thin line, and, after a failed attempt to will his half-frozen nostrils to close from the inside, put a hand up to his nose to cover it.MoreLess
“No,” the man said. The single, heavily-accented word echoed through the alley, the force of its message rattling the snowflakes in their orchestrated somersaults.
Alan took a step backward as the flicker that had been playing on the liquor bottles stopped, the flame finally drowned by the rising pool of molten wax. He felt the chill of the charred wick, cocooned in a cooling mold, never to burn again.
“I am not,” the man said. He untucked his legs and Alan sa...w the work of the Krok. The man’s left leg ended above the knee, and his right leg ended mid-shin.
The terminus of the right leg was covered by the pinned folds of a pant leg, but the stump of thigh that was the remains of his left leg was an exposed collection of open sores, red, and blue, and green, and filled with pus. Two of the sores were framing broken pustules that were oozing a yellow-green fluid even in the bitter cold.
Alan made his mouth into a thin line, and, after a failed attempt to will his half-frozen nostrils to close from the inside, put a hand up to his nose to cover it.MoreLess
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