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I let my arm drop a little and the head gets its goop on my shin.
“Ugh,” I sigh, holding it back away from me. “This thing is disgusting. I don’t know Scar did this with his teeth.”
Snake hisses in agreement, adding that I was lucky I wasn’t the one who had to do it.
He is not wrong. I did not think I was squeamish, but I would prefer to make my enemies bleed without getting covered in their bodily fluids in the process.
This head-carrying experience has driven my hunger from me. I can’t imagine eating while I’m still thinking about how disgusting this feels, and I was definitely ready for a big dinner before we started fighting.
“I think I might have to reconsider giving up meat,” I admit.
The thought of it turns my stomach.
Snake makes his laughing noise and hisses his disbelief at me.
“Yeah, yeah,” I tell him. “Don’t tell me this doesn’t disgust you.”
I thrust the head at him. He jumps back, almost dropping the body he has over his shoulder.
I snort, and he makes a small noise of complaint.
“Sorry, that was too far,” I admit, keeping the head a safe distance away from us both.
He shakes his head at me and assures me I will never give up eating meat.
He is probably right.
I am just eager to get rid of this severed part.
Snake hisses again, more softly this time.
He is wondering what might happen when we get back to see our mate.
“I would guess that she’ll be sleeping,” I tell him. “If not, then I’ll ask her if you can give her a good night kiss.”
He hisses again and I shrug. “I know you would rather ask her yourself, but I don’t know how you’re going to do that when you communicate in hisses, and she can’t hear you.”
He hisses a little more, and it takes me a second to realize what he means.
He has one strange hiss that he uses as a describing word for a ‘thing’ which he uses for literally any ‘thing’. His knife was the last time he used it, and the excitement in his actions clued me in that time.
This sounds less enthused and more serious.
“You are talking about the book Scar brought home. The one with the sign language in it.”
He nods and gives a hiss of agreement.
“We can grab it when we are in The Abyss,” I tell him. “But we should be quick. I do not like the thought of being trapped in there when the sun sets.”
I have had quite enough of being stuck in that nothing land.
I’m sure Snake has, too. There are much better things to be found out here where we will be living from now on. I do not like that we have to go back there to be rid of the bodies, but Scar is insistent that we clean up our messes so that we can have a fresh start and for some reason that means filling The Abyss with dead bodies instead of letting them rot in the ground out in the forest somewhere.
I suppose if we did leave them out here, Scar would tell us we have to bury them and that sounds like even more work. The Abyss is better than having to spend hours digging.
Finally, the portal is within sight, but I find myself pulling a face at the thought of stepping through it.
I keep walking, but I don’t want to go back inside.
