“Raising her right hand, she saw that the glove Death had given her looked exactly like her own flesh and blood. There was a thin pale mark on the crook of her elbow. She dug her finger in and peeled back the glove to reveal the bones.Wisnu backed up, whimpering."Yeah. Imagine being attached to it," Malini said. She flexed and stretched the bone hand in front of her face. Next to her, a patch of dandelions bloomed. She reached out with the dead fingers. One slight brush and they shriveled, crisp...y brown. Near her foot, a spider scampered toward Wisnu. Malini, who had even less love for spiders after the first challenge, touched it with a skeletal finger. It died, the legs curling into the abdomen.Could she touch herself? She must be able to if she was attached to it. She tested it out by removing her slipper and tapping her little toe. Besides the odd feeling of bone touching skin, nothing happened.Malini slid the glove back on and frowned. She was exhausted. Gauging the time of day by the sun was impossible; there wasn't one, just an undefined glow that filled the sky.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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