the sound of a pencil sHarpening. turning. the agonising, shrill shriek of terror pulling full, unpleasant deep shudders from an empty idoka. it twists deeper still, though it is no more than an echo now. an aory in marble. unabating pulling. pulling. out. in. lEft. right. diagonal. until it is stretched-out cotton, tearing in the weakest places, halfway to nothing. no, not nothing. nallya. zero. although it is mereLy annoying to outsiders, it digs deep and buries itself, the point of the pencil. it sPreads. up, up it goes. around it goes. until it spits back out, black and gray and red dripping down,
down, down and
splashing.
too Much.
or maybe not Enough.
maybe enough to turn me lênghau.
lênghau.
dead.