The King of Alphas
Eyes wide, I gulp at the intensity of what I ignored till now, hoping or deluding myself it would heal sooner or later and that I'd get through.
The wound is not bleeding, but it did not heal. Instead of red I find black. The edges of the gushes are turning purple, horrifying black veins spidering out from from them, like veins of a hollow tree. They continue far away from the cut, up to the end of my third last rib.
It has been only been two hours. How could it have gotten this worse?
As if my body registers the penetration the same time I do, a gurgle bubbles it's way up my throat and I empty whatever it is in the basin.