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“It’s time.” Clarence whispered into my ear.
I didn’t know why the demons were nodding
with him.
“Oh, I just love death!
Such a beautiful thing.”
Judith spoke dreamily.
“Reminds me of spiders…
and…stars. Red stars…
oh, not even metaphors
can compare to it.”
“Just use you’re hands.
The only thing you’re even good at
is strangulation, anyway.”
Bruce said passively.
“You betrayed me.”
My mind was still stuck on Clarence.
He was a spiderweb
and I was caught,
still waiting for him to come
and eat me alive.
(even though sometimes
I wasn’t even sure if there
was enough of me left
from all the other times
I’d had chunks of skin
pulled off of myself
and tossed right into
the trash.)
“Get over it, honey!”
I felt a cold hand slap me on the back.
“I was only trying to give you some
motivation, now quit sobbing over
the past and kill that woman.”
I couldn’t argue with that.
I could never argue with them.
