The Devil’s Boy
He drew the jawline from memory, with clean bones and flayed skin.
Then he moved on to another one, this time the figure had a bag over its head, ropes binding its wrists. He didn’t give them names. They were just shapes, bruises, positions he recognized. Even when he tried to take a break, his pencil kept moving.
By the time he got to the fourth page, his fingers were sore. He had sketched a man nailed to a wall, skinless, with teeth scattered like loose screws below. Luca stared at it, blinked, and then set the pencil down as if it had burned him.
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