Something crawled around it. It beat like any normal heart would, pumping the inky substance throughout the rest of the body. Sinuous muscle surrounded the hole, umber skin eventually growing another few centimeters outward. Another chunk of skin was gone from his obliques and abdomen, exposing more pinkish innards until they disappeared beneath his beltline. “Unfortunate,” Apoleia said, drawing the attention of the half-cadaver-half-human. It turned unnaturally slow, revealing a bloodied hole in the back of its skull—only the blood was, of course, black. He turned back to Olivia. “My name is
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Yeah, I was WRONG.
