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Submitted to Contest #329
The light was blinding. It flared across his eyelids like a wildfire. Cristof screwed his eyes shut, letting the orange roar shift to a deep red. Feeling returned to his body slowly. First the cold, bone-deep and paralysing. Then the hunger. Always the hunger. It clawed and scraped in his mind, pulsing like a heartbeat.Slowly and with great effort, he flexed a finger. It brushed the familiar rough stone of his bed. So it was time. Testing, he flexed his other hand. Then a leg. He felt so weak. It must have been centuries since he had gone to...
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