His expression darkened. When he first confessed what the Minister had done to him, murdering him, only to bring him right back to life, cursing him to immortality and the forever lingering need to murder others, I didn't believe him. How could you believe that? He'd been ‘reanimated’, his words not mine, ten years ago, and yet he continued to grow, to age. It was a bullshit story to spook me. But then, when I laughed in his face, he reached into a kitchen drawer and whipped out a steak knife. Without missing a beat, he stabbed his hand all the way through and removed the knife so quickly I
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