Resurrection (Apocalypse Chronicles Part Ii)
“What was strange about the virus was that while all that was happening, the infected person was acutely aware of it.My breath, hollow in the back of my throat, sounded foreign to me. The scalding heat was gone, the air flowed unobstructed and without pain. The impairments to my limbs had been erased like a hand wiping a board clean.In that brief moment, I didn’t try to control anything I felt. Breathing and awareness over your body’s condition was involuntary, a necessary part of being.“She’s a...wake,” I heard Mei say, although it wasn’t her voice. It was too defined, too perfect in my ears. I picked up on a slight accent now. I noticed the air that coursed over her lips and teeth as she spoke and the tremor at the end when she finished the last word.“Someone better hold-” That was Beverly’s voice, the sharpness of it more cutting now.Then came my next inhale and with it the scent that drove me mad.I had leaned into that natural earthy fragrance for months, wanting it to become a palpable entity and to wrap its arms around me and never let me go.But that scent, Harrison’s scent, sparked in me an uncontrollable hunger, a craving unlike any I’d ever experienced before, as if I had gone weeks without food and would do anything at all to devour it.On that inhale, I acted purely from instinct, from the base of my skull that drove innate animal reflexes.I knew it was coming and tried to stop it, mindfully and desperately using every ounce of willpower I had.No, no, no, no, no!MoreLess
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