“Pain is weakness leaving the body."
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Sure, it can rot and it can age and it can fall away, but the consistency of it tends to remain. While scents vary from one human to another, it all smells the same when it melts. Something sickly sweet, permeating the nostrils into the brain, into the mouth, sinking into the tongue. It’s a sweet, sweet rot that takes days to stop haunting the bones of its host. Khan finds that his own skin isn’t much different.
He hardly remembers how it happened, just hours ago. Something about living in the darkest parts of the world create the darkest parts of people. A Molotov cocktail isn’t the greatest way to make friends. Either way, the ones who had maimed him were long gone in their own ways now: the blood on his clothes never seemed to belong to him.
The stigma of ritual candles is preferred– but maybe he’s just insane. Maybe he finally snapped. The VOICE never asked that of him, and he wouldn’t have offered in the first place (that’s Lenny’s sickness, he thinks, it’s not contagious yet.) In any case, he’s still picking bits of fabric away from the scorched wound of his forearm when she enters the room. Even in the dim lighting, the charred, stinging pain is clear, an ugly backdrop against the pale digits that tend to it.
“Did you read that off of a t-shirt, Lenny?”