Chapter Thirty Nine ●|●|●● •♤•♤•♤• ●|●|●|● I seriously understood the implications of my words. This is Dark Bone we're talking about, he doesn't understand exaggeration or metaphor, so I should have known better than to let my words give him that much power. But I just could not stop myself from uttering them, stop myself from chanting them over and over again, and I was only silenced by his withering chortle and of course the tightness of his grip on my wrists as he applied more pressure. I became increasingly aware that he was trying to pin me down and how intimate the position that we were in was, but was just as taunting as it was intimate because he could simply dive his head down and aim for the artery in my neck and ripit open. I just imagined that happening. It was such a

