The Siren's Scion
I made sure he knew, in that moment, which part of the sound was the furniture and which was the breaking of my bones, my skin.
"No," he slurred, shaking his head as if to dislodge a persistent insect. "Get out of my head."
But I was just setting the scene. I played the memory of my death on a relentless, clear loop in his mind. The sight of me, small and pale, trying to drag myself across the vast expanse of floor, my strength failing with each pathetic inch. The long, dark, ugly smear of blood I left behind—a brutal, abstract painting of my final, desperate journey.