The Ashes Within
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  • Reads 1,730
  • Votes 382
  • Parts 16
  • Time 35m
Ongoing, First published Sep 28, 2015
Mature
His eyes darted around the room, warily, trying to get use to the overwhelming darkness.
  
  He felt the tip of the sharp metal point gently touching his smooth skin. Threats were murmured into his ear before he felt the cool knife penetrate into his skin slowly and painfully. Blood oozed out from the wound immediately.
  
  The attacker's eyes gleamed in the darkness. Hand pulled back, the knife was taken out of him. In a quick motion, the attacker jabbed the knife into a wound that never healed, causing him to jerk backwards.
  
  His screams were heard over the distant hills as they filled the quiet night..

 

  Headlines of people getting mysteriously killed. A female teenager tries to figure out what is going on with this 'killing spree'. But how does she do it?
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