The Boy who Circled Time
He was far too small and Lila was sure that she could make an anatomically correct diagram of the human skeleton through the direct observation of him and him alone.
His once tan skin, only a little darker than her own and slightly less tinged with the warm yellow of candle light, that component instead replaced with brass and bronze and the colours of expensive olive oil, was now thin enoug for each and every nerve, each and every blood vessel, both veins and arteries and capillaries, to be been and traced in their purple, green, and blue lines, forming a road map of Jasper's body and history.
It would be hard to look at, if it weren't so morbidly fascinating to see.
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