Bianca Goes To Visit

Snake sat before the embers of the fire that had long gone out.

He was staring into space, his one eye blinking rapidly, mind working furiously.

Stroking his ruined face, he grimaced, making him look even more grotesque.

His face was a ruin, twisted by some old violence that had never healed clean. One eye was gone, the socket collapsed into a shadowed pit, while the other glared with a feverish brightness that made his ugliness more menacing. The left side of his forehead caved in, as though some brutal blow had crushed the bone long ago, giving his skull a warped, unnatural shape. The scars dragged his mouth into a crooked sneer, so that even silence looked like mockery. When he moved, the thin skin over his ruined features tightened grotesquely, as if stretched across broken stone. There was nothing pitiable about him—his disfigurement seemed to have curdled into malice, the very shape of his face whispering cruelty before he ever spoke.Bottom of Form

Snake had begun to move aroun