The Body Flicker 소설 & 이야기

The feeling earlier when I entered there was no corpse. He was silent for a long time, not knowing what to do. At that moment, the woman's body suddenly trembled. Like an electrocuted fish. Great seizures. The corpse's eyes narrowed, then its eyeballs popped out of place. Fell to the floor with a thud, pleck! Alif trembled to see this. However, there is still something terrible next. More than Alif expected.

Tears prickle at the corners of my eyes but they refuse to fall from my eyes and the dark void finally consumes me. Just when it feels like nothing of me will be left, a tiny blip of light flickers behind my eyelids. My body surges backwards like it is being pulled by a rope. Visions flicker past me like I am traveling through time. Suddenly my body comes halting to a stop and my back hits something hard. Slowly opening my eyes I stare at the world around me that I once knew.

Getting closer. A hand grabs my wrist. I nearly drop her. Nearly scream. Claire’s face swims into view, her lips moving. Lily. Move. But I can’t. My legs won’t work. The baby’s skin is fever-hot against my chest, her tiny fingers curled into my shirt. She’s pulsing , light flickering beneath her skin like trapped lightning. Goldfire. The memory hits me like a fist—Silas’s blood on my hands, the facility shaking apart, my own body burning from the inside out as I tore through his hybrids.

*Flashforward* I could taste the sourness of the bile in my mouth, begging to be expelled. But I was frozen, what had I done? The warm sensation of his blood against my skin made me want to scrub off the top layer of skin. I stared wide eyed at his lifeless body. Oh god. Running to the bathroom, I made it just in time to expel the contents of my stomach.

He rubbed my clit lightly. “I distracted your body. Your brain had assumed my finger against your opening was a threat because you expected pain, so I went and posed another threat your synapses had to focus on. Usually it works best with actual pain, but tickling is effective too because the body reacts in a similar way.” I shook my head. “You are good at this.” His lips twitched, and his gray eyes questioned me. “I’ve studied the workings of the body for a long time, especially its reactions to pleasure and pain.”

I cried out repeatedly, tethering on edge and unable to fall over. He leaned closer and dipped his head to take a puckered nipple into his mouth. He rolled his tongue around the areola twice. Then as he plunged in, he sucked hard on it, and when he withdrew from me, he loosened his mouth from the tortured nipple. Plunge and suck. Withdraw and loosen. Plunge and suck. Withdraw and loosen. The feeling was intense and indescribable. My whole body started trembling as I felt my body coil tight like a coiled snake waiting to spring itself on a victim.

Frost coldly hummed into the mind of the human. Or so he thought. --- Elsewhere – A Flicker in the Flame Archives Far to the south, deep in the glowing antechamber of the Flame Archives, Emma gasped mid-step. A tremor ran through the ground beneath her. It wasn’t an earthquake. It was something waking. Something slinking closer through layers of ice and air. She blinked. Her vision split for a second—two versions of herself flickering out of sync. One smiling. One terrified. Long steadied her. “Emma?”

The seal-like mark on her palm was still faintly glowing. FLICKER! Suddenly, the lights in the room began to flicker again. It was terrifying for those in the room, especially the fish tanks containing the grotesque half-human, half-aquatic test subjects. The sight was always revolting. The temperature started to drop, and they began to shiver. The shadows of the strange creatures became more distorted and terrifying in this situation. FLICKER! BANG! All the lights went out. The room was so dark they couldn't see anything. Then, a large gust of wind seemed to sweep past them, making them stagger.

I crawl back to the wall, my body shaking with sobs. ##########