Meantime, Part 15

15 – Saint Matthew Returns To The Womb Roan didn’t know exactly what made him come back to himself, beyond the blinding electrical pain that seemed to be setting his neck and jaw on fire. The taste of blood was thick in his mouth, and it felt like all the bones in his upper body had been broken and hastily reset, which was probably more true than not. That was when his leg hummed. Oh, wait, it was his phone vibrating in his pocket. That’s what brought him back to himself. He moved his hand and touched it, and that was when he discovered the vibration made the ache in his hand worse. He thought it was going to shake the fine bones loose under his skin, pulverize them, turn his knuckles inside out. Muscles still twitched in his fingers, making them jitter...

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