ACE OF HEARTS
He breaks his fingers one by one with a kind of clamp, cuts off his ears, and cauterizes the wounds so that he loses so much blood to be able to continue with his game if the man dies.
Then he turns to me, his face and his torso are splattered with blood, his hands drip with the crimson liquid, and he approaches me slowly as if I'll be scared if he does anything suddenly.
I'm not disgusted but I am fascinated to see him work, he continues to get involved in his own game, and my stomach is oppressed by something that does not decipher.
He reached out to me, placed his bloody hands on my waist, and carried me off the table, staining my shirt with his hands, but it didn't matter.