Enzo
Nina’s eyes widened when I finally told her the truth.
“No,” she said, pacing back and forth and rubbing her head. “This isn’t real. Werewolves aren’t real. Talking skeletons are not real!”
I sighed and stood, walking over to her.
“Look,” I said, pulling aside the torn fabric of my jeans to show her my wound. It was already healing. The torn flesh from the skeleton’s attack was rejoining without leaving so much as a scar. Even the blood disappeared.
When Nina saw my leg heal, she stumbled backwards into the wall, her chest heaving as she breathed heavily.
“I have to be dreaming,” she said. I watched quietly as she pinched her arm to try and wake herself up.
“This is real, Nina,” I said. “You’re awake.”
“Well then, I must be going insane,” she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.
I walked toward Nina and took her by the shoulders, stooping to look her in the eyes.
“You’re not crazy. Everything you saw is real. Don’t I feel real?” I took her hand and placed it on my chest, right over my heart so she could feel my heartbeat. She let her hand linger there for a few moments, then shuddered and pulled away.
“If you think I’m a monster, so be it,” I said. “But I won’t stop watching you, because someone — or something — has sinister plans for you, and no human can protect you.”
her head. She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before I had the chance to stop her, she ran
afraid of us,” Fio
replied out loud. “She is a human,
again. Some witch must have put a spell
on the floor, its screen cracked
starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the
and why?” I growled, to which the bewitched skeleton only
one sent me,”
skeleton’s throat.” What
truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to a table next to
brandished the bone saw so the skeleton could
with?” I said, gliding it along the skeleton’s ribs. ”
without muscle or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to most other supernatural beings. Becoming an undead skeleton was
leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw
out. “I swear no one
the skeleton’s leg
the skeleton replied. “And a strong one at that. Strong enough to
only a
head. “She’s not human,” it said. “I don’t know what she
actually have been onto something. The way that Fio latched onto her from the beginning made me think that she was
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