“You didn’t cut too deep, did you?”
“I cut where you told me to cut…”
Mr. Abelflesh tore her blouse open. A pad of gauze went with the shirt. The medical tape had failed and the large wound stood out like a snake on a pillow.”
“Oh my dear. You cut too high. You cut an artery. You’ve surely been bleeding out. You will need medical attention.” Mr. Abelflesh’s assessment ran cold as he realized Wendy’s flesh had never been this pale before.
“You told me there would be a lot of blood.”
“Not this much.”
Wendy whimpered. Her eyes had clamped down from the pain, but she wanted to open them one last time. She wanted to tell Gray it was all going to be okay.
But it wasn’t.
Gray missed the moment. Perhaps, he blinked so fast he hadn’t felt it. But in that moment, his mother became a lifeless lump. There was a difference between the living and the dead. The same difference between a night and day.
Gray cried. He looked to Abelflesh; he looked to an adult to do something. But there was nothing that could be done. Wendy, his mother, was dead.
“Such an amateur stitch job,” Abelflesh said. He looked at the boy and pursed his lips until he looked like a duck trying to smile. “Well, there’s plenty left we could cut up and freeze for later. I don’t suppose you brought a toothbrush. It looks like you will be staying with me for a while. At least until we get some meat on your bones.”
THE END.
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