The Rip
But the worst part — the thing that made Toni’s scream catch and break — was the grotesque mutilation: Jasmine’s thigh bone had broken clean through her knee, torn up through her torso, pierced her lower jaw, and exited through the top of her skull like a grotesque skewer.
Toni gagged.
Then came the water.
It began to bubble all around her feet, slithering up through the seams in the deck. At first it seemed like steam — but then it moved with purpose. Dozens of thin, snaking trails curled upward like sentient tendrils, wrapping around her arms, legs, and chest. They shimmered like glass. Then hardened into spear-like points.
One hovered before her eye.
Toni’s scream was cut short as the ten
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