Hellblades
He fell quiet, tears spilling anyway.
I worked quickly, though my hands trembled.
I forced Bahar’s jaw open, pried her mouth wide with my fingers, and pressed three hard pumps into her chest.
Once.
Two.
Three!
Her body jolted, and with a horrible cough, black smoke erupted from her lungs.
It poured from her mouth like tar, but within it shimmered faint threads of light — stolen essence, the last fragments of the women.
The threads of light frees themselves from the black smoke, twisted violently, then split, rushing like strains of liquid water back across the room.
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