#Chapter 23 Monster
#Chapter 23: Monster
Enzo
Nina’s eyes widened when I finally told her the truth.
“No,” she said, pacing back and forth and rubbing her head. “This isn’t real. Werewolves aren’t real. Talking
skeletons are not real!”
I sighed and stood, walking over to her.
“Look,” I said, pulling aside the torn fabric of my jeans to show her my wound. It was already healing. The torn flesh from the skeleton’s attack was rejoining without leaving so much as a scar. Even the blood disappeared.
When Nina saw my leg heal, she stumbled backwards into the wall, her chest heaving as she breathed heavily.
“I have to be dreaming,” she said. I watched quietly as she pinched her arm to try and wake herself up.
#Chapter 23 Monster
“This is real, Nina,” I said. “You’re awake.”
“Well then, I must be going insane,” she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.
I walked toward Nina and took her by
to look
the eyes.
it on my chest, right over
won’t stop watching you, because
gears turning in her head. She shuddered again, but didn’t say
stop her, she ran out of
room.
afraid of
replied out
human, after all.”
sighed and turned back to face the skeleton. The incantation I used on him would only last for so long before he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a spell on this skeleton, but for what purpose, I didn’t know.
under my foot. 1 looked down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…”
skeleton was starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the stand, pinning it,
the tables by
you, and why?”
the bewitched
chuckled.
sent me,”
throat.” What would an undead
option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to a table next to me and grabbed the first instrument I could
so the skeleton could see
along the skeleton’s ribs. ” Your
start with a leg.”
the lowest form of the undead; without muscle or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to most
argue that vampires
said, lowering the bone saw to the skeleton’s femur.
out. “I swear no one
skeleton’s leg and furrowed
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