“Once we’d gotten on church grounds the bond with Alice severed and my body was battered with what felt like a thousand new varieties of aches and pains. My arm started bleeding again. I could taste more blood rising in the back of my throat to settle thickly on the back of my tongue. I had managed to knit together a bit on the ride over, but now, without a healthy helping of demon mojo, I could barely stay conscious. I saw Hernandez and Yavetta rushing towards us from a back room. There were wo...rds directed at the three of us, but I couldn’t follow the conversation. It all just coalesced into a mindless drone of noise. I remember being carried into the kitchen in the back, hefted onto one of the stainless steel tables, being washed away in another tidal wave of pain and nausea, and then blackness. A very warm and wonderfully comfortable blackness at that. I wasn’t sure how long it been before I came drifting back to reality. I woke up in my room stretched out on the bed, a bottle of Tylenol glaring like a beacon of hope from the desktop.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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