The Guardian Manna
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  • Parts 3
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  • Reads 14
  • Votes 1
  • Parts 3
  • Time 14m
Ongoing, First published Apr 27, 2018
How could her life change from normal to grotesquely fictional. The innumerable gore and monsters surrounding her, she could easily believe she was still deep in slumber and what's happening right before her eyes is only a horrific nightmare. She had plenty that do not make sense.

So she closed her eyes and willed herself to wake up, clenching her fist until her knuckles went white. Screams, crying, choking, gurgling, explosions, growls and crazy laughter and snickering, no matter how hard she tried she cannot seem to wake up, and her closed eyes just weren't blocking these terrifying sounds.

Her eyes were pried open by a monster, no, a demon whose hands held her head in between. It's long fingers were bejeweled by long and sharp fingernails that were gently scratching her skin. Her eyes met a head with no eyes, but full of mouths that were each laughing sinisterly, some of the lips were sewed and sealed shut but still twinges. 

The mouths started to talk. Teasingly seductive as they salivated. 

"~Man~na~" the mouths said.

The nails in her face started to dig into her skin, it's clear that she was not dreaming. The only thought in her mind at the moment is

-" I'm gonna die "-.
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