The Reaper's Pet
I’ve been transformed into a freak that’s neither woman nor beast, that belongs to neither the living nor the restful dead.
“An orphan and a nonperson in your mortal life, it is quite fitting that you should still be subhuman in the afterlife, is it not?”
Septimus, having morphed the fingers of his other hand into overkill talons, rips one cat-ear off the abomination on the wall as a boy would tear the wing off a fly. I feel great waves of pain coursing from my scalp and then throughout my body, all nerve endings humming at the violence as fresh, warm blood squirts out of me in jets.
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