by Jamie Ott
Lyssa heard voices and thoughts around her, wondering who and why someone was screaming.
She dropped the man, ran to the woman and broke her neck.
When she fell to the ground, her head slammed onto a small rock that stuck out of the ground. The flesh of her scalp was sliced clean across. Pink flesh peeked out at her.
Lyssa bent down and tasted it. It was better than anything ever.
Although she told herself to stop, she couldn’t. She started wolfing down the woman’s scalp, hair and all.
When she’d consumed it all, she grabbed the small rock and struck it at her head, cracking the woman’s skull. She pounded it again and again, until her brain revealed itself.
Lyssa ripped out the brain, and bit deeply. She relished the sweet yet salty taste, the spongy texture on her tongue. She even swallowed down the woman’s spinal cord and nerve endings.
She was in such a feeding frenzy that she didn’t realize she was surrounded by men.
One tried to pull her off, but he might as well have been pulling a pig out of slop. There was no way he could separate her from her meal.
Someone stabbed her with a large knife.
It woke her from her frenzy. She looked down and shrieked at the sight of the blade sticking through her gut.
A pair of hands grabbed her, but she was in too much shock to resist.
Suddenly, she was being ushered somewhere, but she didn’t know where.
Next thing she knew, they were in a grass clearing. One of the men pulled the blade from her gut, and swung it at her neck, severing her head.
Although her head lay separate from her body, she could still see the sky and the stars.
She screamed even louder.
The sound of sifting dirt came to her ears; one of the men was digging a hole.
A pair of hands picked her head up and threw her in the hole. Another placed a wide wooden stake at the place where her heart was, and pounded it with a mallet, barring her to the ground. Then they covered her with dirt, as she cried.
She wasn’t buried long before she passed out.
More about the series:
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Vampin Year 2 Series to Date:
#10 Primordial
#11 Valhol
#12 Road to Heaven
#13 LYSSA
#14 Gwynna (Scheduled for Release 2012)
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