Viper Sitting there, watching each other, the awkwardness is palpable. Neither of us know quite what to do next. He’s helped me; he’s fixed me up; what now? He coughs quietly, I think more to fill the silence than through the need to cough. Swinging onto heels, he unhooks the backpack, pulling it down to […]
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Viper: Chapter One
Viper The pain takes a while to hit me. It always has – ever since I was little. I remember falling, head over heels down a flight of stone steps, and standing when I reached the bottom, a thin trickle of blood running into my eye and the skin scraped in strips off my bare […]
