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One quick slice.
That's all it would take.
No screaming would be heard, no heavy thud or gasp of pain.
At least, not until they found her in the morning.
Moonlight slipped over the windowsill to illuminate the sleeping form and the cryptic, bone white face that watched it. Pai hefted one of Kish's slim daggers and regarded the insolent girl who could potentially ruin it all, heart hardening to resolution.
One step forward.
His world was at stake, and for this moment at least, morals were irrelevant.
No one would know until it was too late- not her friends, not Masaya or Ryou or even Kish.
Loathing rose in a sickening wave up into his mouth, bile congealing in his throat and eyes narrowing to slits- loathing for these pathetic, affecting humans, of what his people had been become, of his own unsightly hesitation.
One quick slice.
Pai pulled back his hands to see them stained a deep red- the colour of an overripe strawberry.
