Novel & Cerita Bone Deep

"Sam, is Kristen hiding because she doesn't want to donate her bone marrow to me?" Violet asked pitifully. She looked like she was on the verge of tears. Samuel ruffled her hair affectionately. "Don't worry. It's just leukemia. Even if Kristen doesn't donate her bone marrow to you, I'll search the entire country to find you a match." Violet pouted and said, "My body didn't show any signs of rejection upon receiving Kristen's bone marrow. The doctor said he's never seen two people with such a high level of compatibility."

The candles flickered, casting shadows that reached like arms. Outside, the fog had returned. It crept under the cracks in the Bone House walls, quiet and slow. Underneath their boots, the floorboards trembled. Just once. A heartbeat in the bones. And they all knew: the dreams were only the beginning. Something old had noticed them. And it had started to listen.

I would come back to him. Julian rose to his feet, swaying. He stumbled to the corner and wrapped both hands around the heavy steel pipe. He closed his eyes. All he could see was me carrying him through the rain. He clenched his jaw, raised the pipe high above his head, and swung it down with every ounce of strength left in his body -- straight into his own left kneecap. *CRACK.* The sickening, brittle snap of shattering bone echoed through the tiny basement. Blinding pain ripped through his entire body. His kneecap was smashed to pieces. His lower leg twisted at a grotesque, unnatural angle.

Bone Knight Level: 150 Health: 13000 Mana: 1500/1500 Attack: 400 Defense: 300 Speed: 45 [Skills: Bone Wall, Soul Siphon, Bone Storm, Death's Embrace: (Passive) Mortifer's presence weakens enemies, reducing their attack and defence by 10%. Improved Bone Armor, Improved Bone Shield, Improved Bone Spear, Undead Fortitude, Bone Wall, Bone Prison, Command Undead, Summon BoneStalker] [Buffs: Unbreakable Will: Immune to fear and charm effects.]

He crouched over the skeleton, hands hovering as if he wanted to touch it, but he didn’t. “The bone density appears to be consistent with a young woman in her late teens,” he murmured, half to himself, half to us. “And look at this—” He pointed at something near the ribcage I couldn’t make out from where I was standing. “The marrow crystallization pattern. I’ve never seen this outside of a laboratory sample. This is genuinely remarkable!” “Harrison,” Tyler said flatly. “Right. Yes. Sorry.” He straightened, but he was still looking at the bones with awe on his face.

“What bond?” There’s a pause on the other end, and I can almost see Zalie smirking. “The soulmate bond,” she says simply. Her words hit me like a freight train. My mind reels, trying to process what she’s just said. “We are not soulmates,” I say firmly, my tone leaving no room for argument. “I don’t have one. My soul belongs to me and me alone. You know that crap doesn’t exist.” Zalie snorts. “You’d be surprised what things truly exist in this world. And yes, it does. Zeris and I are proof.”

Jessa ends dad’s attempt to figure out why she doesn’t remember receiving it. “Is that why you mentioned prolonged torture?” Dad asks. She nods. “Why would he poison her husband to death and half her kids if he didn’t plan on killing her as well?” “But it’s not just her.” She responds sadly. “While I haven’t done a physical on her I can tell you that when he gave this baby the injection of silver the needle was jabbed into her leg with enough force that it went through the bone into the marrow. Like the others, I will be checking her for malnutrition as I do suspect a calcium deficiency has weakened her bones as her femur shouldn’t have been penetrated so easily.

Blood splattered like pouring red seawater, dyeing the boundless sea of trees and land red. Only after Black Lightning turned into a streak of flowing light, disappearing into the distant horizon, did the Golden Baboon, whose strength was comparable to a Semi Martial Emperor's, hit to the ground after being severed into two. Soon, it was devoured by insects, ants, and ferocious beasts of the dark forest, only leaving behind white bones. One could see such a phenomenon everywhere in the Bone-burying Forest. Under its lovely green canopy of tree crowns, countless strange white bones were piled up like mounds, above and below heaps of fallen leaves and humus. It looked as horrifying as a sea of

-Mom, calm down, we've never seen one. -It's true, I'm calming down.

Her face was bleeding, half of her skull seemed deformed. There was another reason why Rain was in such a terrible shape. Rain was—as Archie mentioned earlier—indeed a cripple. They all knew that she was suffering from Brittle bone disease or Osteogenesis imperfecta. This genetic disorder never allowed her body to develop strong bones. Every bone in her body was thin as a stick and she was born this way, she couldn't even walk. She was raised at the mercy of the Foster Family until they found out that she was an aptitude for assassination.