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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.”
could practically see the gears turning in her head. She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before I had
afraid of
replied out loud. “She is a human, after
last for so long before he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a
Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…” I whispered, stooping to pick it up. I’d have to replace
over to it and grabbed it off the stand, pinning it, down
you, and why?” I growled, to which the
one sent me,” the skeleton
grip around the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead like yourself want with an ordinary human
answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to
skeleton could see it, then began
I start with?” I said, gliding it along the skeleton’s ribs. ” Your arm? Or maybe I should
most other supernatural beings. Becoming
with a leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw
swear no one sent me. I was
the skeleton’s leg and
has a scent,” the skeleton replied. “And a strong one at that.
a human,”
“I don’t know what she
the beginning made me think that she was a bit out of the ordinary, but I
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