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Prompt: Blood

It was always disconcerting to wake up covered in blood, the coppery scent a tang in an over-sensitive nose. Sore skin, pale and sickly, slowly being revealed as the evidence of the night before flakes off to fall to the hard ground. The sweet metallic taste still present, dancing unwanted over taste buds. The echo of the night before still ringing, howls and shrieks, exhilaration and fear and pain all melding into a beautiful chorus turned nightmarish. It was the day after a full moon, a day of repentance after a night of beasts. It was the time of guilt.