Chapter 25
Later that night…
Sugar slowly awoke, feeling herself in a haze. What had happened? She remembered a man, no, two. She looked down at herself and saw a crimson stain on her naked skin. Blood, she thought and reached down and touched it. She brought it up to her lips and tasted it.
Wine.
Yes, wine. She remembered now.
For days, or had it been weeks, she had been on the prowl for blood. Everything was distorted, as if she saw it out of someone else’s eyes, having someone else’s consciousness, a wolf’s perhaps. Everything she looked at seemed to stretch and bend. Shadows that appeared on the walls were like objects of horror, growing, stretching, breathing, and whispering.
There were times when she found herself crawling on the floor, feeling a strange desire to run through t
