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it's skull before it even knew I
moved. As it got dark, I carried the boy and the dog's carcass out of
the cave and into the forest. There I dismembered the dog and made it
appear as if a large animal had killed it. The boy I place high in the
branches since the dog's remains would inevitably attract scavengers and
I didn't want him killed before a search party found him. I looked
around to make sure of some of the details, a crushed bush here, some
claw marks on the boy's tree, scuff marks where a body would seem to
have been dragged. It was the best I could do in a short time since I
was in a hurry to get back in the cavern and see to the girl.
Nagisa Sasaki had stopped breathing some time after I had left and when I
returned, I could see that the change was taking effect. In the
darkness, Nagisa's body took on a luminosity high in the ultra violet. Soon,
I knew, Nagisa's new life would begin and Nagisa Sasaki would be starving. I knew the
steps of the change well, I had seen it time and time before and knew
that the hunger would be everything to Nagisa's in the next few day
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