knifemonopoly: (holding him for ransom)
̷A̷t̷e̷m̷ ([personal profile] knifemonopoly) wrote in [personal profile] softspokenlandlord 2022-02-01 01:45 pm (UTC)

I don't want him...

...I don't want him to get into whatever is out there.

[Eating it, rolling in it, tracking it into the house...Tybolt isn't permitted to do that.

Speaking of...

I really can't put it off anymore, can I?

Atem reaches for the doorknob, and turns it.
]

It might help, to hold your breath--

[And with that advice, Atem pulls the door open, on...

On gore.

Not just Ankhsunatem, everything she was reduced to purplish-red chunky paste across the stoop and door and window. There's patches in other places that Atem can see from up here: disgusting red starbursts stretching across a sidewalk, patches of smeared, sinking viscera on buildings' walls.
]

...ugh.

[The others are mostly a brighter red, though. The blood on their doorstep...it's dead, deoxygenated.

This is a vampire's remains. And, it lines up with Atem's memories -- this is where she last was. The pieces fit, it all adds up...
]

So, that's how it ended, this time.

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