2019
“No. No. No. What did you do?” the Chimera cried. He grabbed the dead girl by the shoulders and shook hard, as though she were to blame for her current predicament. Her head rolled uselessly in his palms.
“WHAT DID YOU DO?” The anger in his voice made Rouyn’s blood run cold. Although he’d know his fate was sealed the second he struck the girl, the reality of facing the backlash was, nonetheless, terrifying. Rouyn felt something akin to an outer body experience, as though his mind had literally travelled back in time to when everything was simpler. A time when his biggest problem was early onset male pattern baldness. He remembered sitting on the train to London after answering one of those clinical trial adverts, laughing at ‘well that escalated quickly’ memes on his Brain mate app
