The Devil’s Boy
Luca stared at it, blinked, and then set the pencil down as if it had burned him.
He rubbed his knuckles slowly, picking at the callus on his thumb. He didn’t think of himself as particularly good at art, but those bodies came out clear. Realistic. Like something you’d see in crime scene folders rather than in fantasy stories.
Drawing was the only thing that didn’t make him stutter. There was no one here to flinch away from. No voice to catch in his throat. Just lines and shapes, accompanied by the quiet click of the pencil moving.
He was halfway through sketching a second face, this one was eyeless, just empty sockets, when the door behind him creaked open.
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