good morning // good night starters / accepting!
Her husband’s blood was still on her hands. Tacky and black. Even if she washed it away Lynn was certain it would never leave, forever a stain on her skin. His last choked breaths still rang in her ears. How his body slumped onto hers was a phantom weight on her chest. She couldn’t even fight off the cultists as they carted her away, dragging her trembling body into a truck.
Hours had passed since she was brought to the church, the place where she’d last seen Blake, the real Blake, in the flesh. After that he was lost to the Bliss, and now… his blood soaked her. Lynn didn’t know what was going to happen—if she’d be killed or drugged—but she didn’t care. Not now. Fear and hatred and anguish roared within her, threatening to tear her apart and all she could managed was a choked sob, a weakened whine slipping past cracked lips.
Another woman sat at her side. Lynn didn’t look at her. Her gaze, wide and hollow, stared at her lap, watching as the blood creased with every twitch of her hands. The woman attempted to soothe her, to quiet her cries as a mother would to a child, but when she tried to put a hand on Lynn’s arm, Lynn flinched. Jolting in the pew, moving herself a few inches from the other, Lynn finally looked at her, her eyes alight in her fury.
“Don’t fucking touch me!”