The Stray Moon
I poke at the scab again, and this time, it doesn’t even hurt.
The moonlight in the window is fading, replaced by the muddy blue of almost-morning. I stand, legs uncertain under me, and hobble to the bathroom. The face in the mirror looks like me, but not. The skin is pale, the eyes sunken, but there’s a brightness to them, a weird intensity that I’ve never seen before. I lean in closer, inspecting the iris. For a second—just a flicker—they catch the light and flash silver, the same cold shimmer as the wolf’s eyes in the woods.
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