240 The Pink Sandals Actually Came In Handy?!? 2 (2/2)

multiple trees have been sliced apart, a sticky, black fluid leaking like blood from each wound. corpses of worms made a paste on the forest floor, and even from here i could tell that it did not smell good.

but what got me was what was in the middle of all of the destruction- a human body.

i gaped in horror.

no way.

absolutely no way.

i stumbled and had to use one of the trees behind me to regain my balance. it can't be... can it?

with trembling footsteps i made my way towards the body, and i had to count every step to keep myself calm.

one step.

two.

three.

it was at the third step that i noticed it. the body's heart was pierced five times by what i could only assume were long, thin... somethings. i squinted to see better, but immediately took a step back because of the smell.

i knew this smell.

it was the same type of smell that i would sometimes get a whiff of when passing by a patient's room in the hospital. it was acrid, sharp, and... the smell of death.

”no,” i whispered. ”no!”

suddenly, i gained the strength from somewhere deep within me, and i took large strides towards junior brother's corpse. i collapsed in front of him, but even from that distance i couldn't see clearly.

my tears were getting in the way.