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The moment you see it, you feel the entire world plummeting through your stomach. It claws the breath right from your throat.
You stare, shaking. You stare at the mangled remains of a man slumped carelessly against a wall and you can barely dare to call it a body anymore; eyes hollow, lips pulled away from teeth to reveal pallid pink gums, hair matted thick with old blood, skin torn away from the side of his face that was never hit by pale moonlight when you kissed him silently where you slept. Blue-white splintered bones jut out his body in ugly places, and it’s all slathered in a mess of blood – but it isn’t crimson anymore, it’s slick, sickening black.
His sunken cheeks are splattered with dark rust freckles and it is the foulest sight you have ever seen. All you can think about is finding somewhere to wretch and just one phrase races in your mind until you want to vomit the words:
Marco broke his promise.