Title: "Underneath Skin"
Series: Lullaby Girls
Author: Treesh Aradia
Disclaimer: wish they did belong to me…. but alas…they belong to square…
Pairings: selphie/irvine
Summary: None whatsoever
Underneath Skin
The shores at the edge of the unknown island fall prey to the violent winds and equally violent tides. The water laps furiously along the isle, taking with it abandoned slippers, old tin cans and a bloody finger.
Has the Henchman struck again? Has he claimed yet another victim? As of now, we do not know. What we do know is that what lies beneath the cold depths of the sea is his garden. Of flesh.
As the forensics and other officials stay near the docks of Balamb city, checking out the area for incriminating evidence and clues, another site is being hidden. Away from the curious eyes of the media and police. Further down, much further then anyone would think to go, the Henchman has made his temple.
There, underneath it all lie the bodies of Carly Johnson and her predecessors. All seventeen of them. The small microorganisms that dwell in the sea have long sine eaten the remnants of what they could find. No morals are pondered, for fishes do what fishes so. Swim and survive. Survival means eating.
As we look closer at the bodies of the girls, or what is left of them, we can see the way a scalpel had been run precisely around the orbit of the eye. Were it not for our knowledge of the Henchman, we would have thought nothing of this. Thought nothing of its missing two important organs…but whatever he does has a purpose. Though we cannot stay in the murky depths of the sea to ponder it.
We now resurface to dry land, in search of the girl who will eventually have the answers. The girl he will eventually want…