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When he dropped the match, the hand ignited and raced about under a blur of flame.
Will caught the stench of burnt flesh. As the flesh blackened, the abomination redoubled its efforts to escape, as if driven by the primordial survival instinct. When the flames diminished, Simon splashed more kerosene on it. The flames ate the flesh until veins and muscle turned to ashes and the bones fell apart.
Simon poked at the bones with his forceps. “At least we know fire stops them,” he said.
The fire, however, was not a complete victory. No longer bound by sinew, the individual bones quivered with ghoulish life.
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