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    I was never introduced to her. I just - - - - noticed - - - - her one day. I asked her if she was new here. She was wearing the uniform, so I thought she was a new hire.


    She didn’t answer, just made a faint smile, and since she looked busy, I chose to let the conversation die prematurely.


    Her name tag simply said [ lina ] and I thought it was weird that the name was not capitalized.


    Other than that she appeared normal at first. She’s a blonde, a bit taller than me, but definitely not above average, with eyes of non-color, which you could have called gray or brown if you really wanted to.


    Plain features, no tattoos, nothing . . . Intriguing. I was a little disappointed because I was bored of the people here.


    . . .


    The next day I saw her, I found out she had a fang. Like, on her wrist. Slightly curved like cobra’s, bone-white.


    I don’t fucking know if it should even be called [ fang ] but I don’t suppose we have a name for something like that, do we?


    For a second, I thought it best to ignore it politely.


    [ lina ] glared at me, she knew that I saw it. Her expression was almost blank. I don’t know if I imagined her making a slight grin or not.


    What do I say what do I say what do I say what do I say-


    She put a finger to her lips, silencing me.


    And so I said nothing. It was the [ unimportant detail ] 1 at [ unimportant detail ] 2 where I worked so I just left and escaped this situation.


    I should have never returned.


    . . .


    I tried to not be weirded out by her.


    I googled [ wrist fangs ] [ wrist protrusions ] [ wrist spines ] [ bone mutation wrists ] [ . . . ] but it got no useful results.


    And it wasn’t all that was different about her, I learned quickly.


    . . .


    [ lina ] could detach her [ unimportant detail ] 3 arm.


    I witnessed it on the [ unimportant detail ] ? after work. She was smoking with one arm and her other arm was on the table in front of her. It didn’t look like a prosthetic to me, but then I have never met people with those.


    I didn’t ask. She didn’t explain.


    Actually, I don’t think I ever heard her speak


    . . .


    She didn’t have a [ unimportant detail ] ? ear.


    She just didn’t. Instead, there was a patch of bare skin.


    Her other ear, well . . . Often she was bleeding black liquid from it.


    Once I even got her tissues to clean it up.


    . . .


    Later I realized no one else was - - - - noticing - - - - her differences.


    - LOOK SHE IS BLEEDING SOMETHING BLACK FROM HER EAR -


    - SHE SHOULD STOP [ unimportant detail ] ? -


    - WHAT THE FUCK -


    It’s what I wanted to yell but my coworkers didn’t show even a hint of being bothered by [ lina ] so I stayed silent.


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    . . .


    Okay, [ my name ], - I thought to myself one of these days, - There is a very simple explanation, girl . . . You just got a bit sick. It’s called schizophrenia when you see strange things no one else does, right? It’s okay, it’s okay, people learn to live with it and have okay lives . . .


    After a [ unimportant detail ] ? of this, I went to my superior to try asking about her.


    - Yeah, [ lina ]? What about her? Did something happen?


    - Weird how? Wouldn’t say I - - - - noticed - - - - anything.


    - I mean, maybe one strange thing is that [ hysterical coworker ] seems to be getting along with her, heh.


    I also considered just being direct with her and asking what’s up, but I was too scared at that point.


    I gave up.


    I decided to just do my best ignoring her for a while. What I considered delusions didn’t get in the way of my work too much. And I was not ready to admit I was delusional and seek help.


    So I just existed with a nightmare in my waking life that was [ lina ] - - - -


    . . .


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have run.


    I should have-


    . . .


    It really is my own fault that I am being dissected by her right now.


    . . .


    I ended work as always. Left the workplace. Made a turn at the street towards home, through the park. It was a sunny, perfect summer evening, beautiful light was pouring through trees...


    And there was [ lina ] standing right in the middle of the path, waiting. Waiting for me, I realized moments later.


    Awesome, [ my name ], - I thought, - We’re starting to see her outside work. Tomorrow first thing I’m registering for psychiatrist appointm-


    [ blur ]


    She crossed [ unimportant detail ] ? distance between us in an instant and crashed into me.


    Her ‘fangs’ - turns out she had them on [ both ] arms - dug into my flesh.


    I collapsed.


    I wanted to cry for help, to push her away, to fight back, but I couldn’t.


    [ lina ] ripped clothes off my stomach and tore it up.


    . . .


    And so here I am in the present, bleeding on the pebble path, with my entrails on the outside.


    With [ lina ] running her fingers through them, as if she was searching for something.


    [ omitted detail ] [ omitted detail ] [ omitted detail ]


    There was sort of gentleness to her moves. It’s like she was not more violent than it was necessary.


    It didn’t hurt very much. It just felt-


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WRONG


    WR-


    She opened me in a few other places, but that didn’t seem to satisfy her.


    She shuffled and disappeared from my field of sight.


    [ unimportant detail ] ? [ unimportant detail ] 1?


    I heard a clicking noise. When she returned to my sight, she had one of her arms replaced with an insect-looking limb with a sharp edge like of a mantis.


    And now she had a thin white spike on her forehead. Kind of like her ‘wrist fangs’, I guess, but much longer.


    She was smiling, faintly as always, just maybe more - - - - honestly - - - - than before.


    She’s a fucking unicorn. Alien? Insect? Robot? . . . A fucking SCP . . . WHY WHY WHY WH-


    I tried to wriggle but it was no use.


    What followed was [ lina ] cutting my skull.


    My vision was turning blurry and I could only see her vague shape shifting around as she [ worked ] on my head with her ‘mantis limb’.


    I’m tearing up, I realized. Even though I was beginning to feel detached from what was happening.


    An unpleasant-yet-pleasant chill suddenly enveloped my head. Is that how it is when your living brain is exposed?


    Then-


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    I think she touched my brain.


    . . .


    I think I heard her sigh in relief.


    I think she lowered her head towards mine.


    I think a drop of her black liquid fell on my face.


    I think her ''unicorn horn'' stabbed into my brain.


    . . .


    Into some specific organ that I wasn’t educated to know about, but it probably had an intriguing-sounding name like all of them.


    And then I was no longer [ unimportant detail ] 11 - - - -


    <hr>


    1 End of the night shift


    2 Packing plant


    3 Left


    ? Independence Day


    ? Right


    ? Handling unpacked food


    ? Month


    ? About a hundred meter


    ? There was no one but me and her as far as I could see


    1? The park never had many visitors so it’s not surprising


    11 Alive
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