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BANG.
I groaned.
My back snapped in half as power as hot as the sun and sharp as daggers bolted through me.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Numbers.
They were the only thing I had left now.
Counting the seconds while I sizzled alive.
One.
Two.
Three wishes that I could just die and be done with this.
I involuntarily gasped and fought to survive as the power cut off, leaving my organs smoking, my blood popping, and my bones ready to glow in the dark.
This kind of persuasion wasn’t new.
I’d endured this over and over for years.
Yet...right there, in that moment with no tattoo to cling to and everything stripped from me in the form of skin ribbons, chopped legs, and hot fevers, I reached my threshold.
I’d been whittled from whole into nothing.
I’d been cut and shocked. Tortured and brainwashed.
And my body and mind finally said...no more.
No more!
I cracked.
All those spiderweb fractures.
All those fissures that’d been working their way through me finally eroded my sanity.
With an earthquake that tore my soul in two...I started to cry.
Silently, stiffly, tears rained down my cheeks. I didn’t have the strength to do anything else.
I couldn’t blink, couldn’t sniff, couldn’t cope.
I just wanted to die.
Please, please let me die.
