4 Drop of strange blood (1/2)
After resting a few minutes, Rus looked at his body with emotion. Before he had a very thin body because he ate almost nothing during the day, only the soup that the guards gave him every morning before going to the mountain. Now he has a muscular body as if he had been training his body for years to become in a warrior
Although he doesn't know what happened in the last minutes, he has something else to worry about and that is what he is going to do with the corpses of Nacus and Fatri. Anyway, Rus does not understand what made them become such dry things devoid of flesh and blood, although he believes it is probably due to the red fog.
”Let's see... it's still dark outside and after such a long time I doubt the night guards are coming” Rus says pensively, walks slowly from one corner to another thinking about what to do ”Hmmm?” Then Rus realizes something! The red stones that he was going to sell to Goro he does not see anywhere in his house, with some hesitation he decides to check the armor of the two corpses, but in the end he finds nothing, not even weapons or money ”What did they think to decide to come without weapons to my house?” Rus wonders, his expression changes to one of understanding when he realizes that perhaps the two did not think that something dangerous would happen when they came to his house, although even if they had come with weapons it might not have been of any use.
”Why aren't my stones?” Rus tries to think where the stones can be, he remembers the red fog and then thinks of the stones that are also red... ”C-could it be that the stones have also become that red fog?”
”Sigh, at least I'm alive, I have to be grateful that it's very rare for someone from the tribe to come to my house since it's in the most desolate part of the tribe...” Rus used to hate walking for more of 10 minutes to get to his house and not only that, but he also has to endure the eyes of the people of the tribe who look at him as if he were a strange beast, basically as if they were of a different species.
Given that he does not have to worry about someone coming to his house, he decides to bury the corpses under his house. The reason he buries them in his house is because although he lives in a desolate place, There is still a chance that a guard may decide to appear suddenly and discover him just when he is burying the corpses! Anyway, the wooden floor of his house has boards that can be removed very easily.
Concerned that a guard by chance comes to check his house, he rushes to find a place in his house that is suitable for burying the corpses, after taking a quick look. He approaches a corner of his house and tries to remove a board from one of the corners where he can put his hands. Rus uses all his strength since although the boards can be easily removed, he remembers that they weigh a lot ”Haa!” With a little shout. He lifts the board, Unexpectedly, the board nailed to the wall causing a lot of noise.
”???” With a puzzled look, he looks at the board that is nailed to the wall for a few seconds ”Seriously, what happened to my body?” Rus swallows nervously since he doesn't know if with all the noise he is causing he can really attract a night guard.
He approaches the board that is nailed and he sees that it has something strange, there are bloodstains on the board, he looks more closely and sees that the spots have the form of palms, Rus is totally convinced that he didn't see any blood stains when he looked at the board before lifting it and nailing it by mistake on the wall. He also looks at his hands in case there has been an injury while lifting the board, but sees that his hands are intact.
Hoping there are no more surprises, he sees with a blank stare that suddenly the blood that is on the board begins to move as if he were trembling. He steps back a few steps with fear of the board because he doesn't want something dangerous to happen again. Rus sees the blood stop moving when he goes back more than 3 steps. With a look of doubt, he gets a little closer to the board, he sees that the blood begins to move again, he goes back 3 steps again... Rus continues to do the same for a minute until he is convinced that the blood it has something to do with him and that only when he is less than 3 steps from the blood does it move as if it had life.
With some hesitation, he decides to bring his hand to the board because there is something inside him that tells him that the blood will not hurt him, even so, he will be very careful in case he sees that the blood does something strange. As soon as his right-hand approaches only a few centimeters from the board, the blood that was shaking a little suddenly jumps into his hand, he withdraws his hand as fast as he can, but in the end the blood manages to fall into his hand, Rus freezes in fear while breathing hard, he looks at his hand and sees that the blood accumulates in a small drop in his hand. He stares at the drop waiting for what it will do next, but the drop does not move at all, unable to bear to spend more time watching the drop of blood, slightly deflects his eyes, but feels that something slowly slips into his hand, he approaches his hand to his eyes and observes that the drop stops moving just when he looks at it.
”Could it be that this drop of blood is playing with me? Does the drop have a life?”
He looks back at the drop without moving his eyes, as he expected, the drop stops moving, Rus slowly moves his eyes to check his suspicions, with his eyes moving to the left, the drop moves to the left at the same rate he moves his eyes ”...Interesting” Says Rus looking at the drop of blood with interest.
Rus already has a small indication that gout has no life, but he thinks gout moves as he wishes. In one last attempt, he thinks about moving the drop to the tip of his index finger, but this time he looks at his feet, when he feels something slips in his hand, he quickly looks at his index finger and, as Rus expected. The drop of blood really moved to the tip of his finger like if it followed his orders!