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    tears began to break into the air through it. Fingers seemed to grasp through the tearing, long, grey and knobby. A total of eight fingers spread the tearing apart, when another eight fingers broke from the backs of the ones already there, opening the other side, separating into two hands, with two more coming from deep in the chaotic mess and pulling the top and bottom of the warping. A single eye coalesced from the center, which separated into countless more eyes filling the center of the tear. The eyes were white with pits like deep orange and red swirling in the middle. They chaotically spun around to look at the entire room before settling on the old man.


    thing on the inside, wanting nothing more but to run far, far away. His broken body refused his commands, until he could finally gather his fleeting sanity and throw himself backward, crawling toward the edge of the dais. His broken jaw hung down uselessly, dead arm drug along the stone. His eyes had widened completely, the fear inside him making them bulge and threaten to pop from the sockets, irises like pinpricks.