#Chapter 23 Monster
#Chapter 23: Monster
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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.
#Chapter 23 Monster
“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
stooping to
the eyes.
it on my chest, right over my heart so she could feel
it,” I said. “But I won’t stop watching you, because someone — or something —
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she ran
room.
of us,”
know,” I replied out loud. “She is
human, after all.”
again. Some witch must have put a spell
down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its
starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it
the tables by
you, and
the bewitched skeleton
chuckled.
me,” the skeleton
my grip around the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead like yourself want with
I had to know the truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its
bone saw so the skeleton
along the skeleton’s ribs. ” Your arm? Or
start with a leg.”
were incredibly weak compared to most other supernatural beings. Becoming an undead skeleton was a punishment brought about by angering a witch, not a blessing of eternal
argue that
leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw to the skeleton’s femur. I let the blade graze the
one sent me. I was attracted to the
the blade away from the skeleton’s leg
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