Chapter 29
And for a moment, everything inside her stopped.
Three seconds. Maybe four. For those few seconds, her brain couldn't quite process what it was seeing. The connection between her eyes and her brain had been severed.
The face staring back at her in the mirror was her own—but at the same time, completely alien. The skin was strangely taut and swollen in places, with dark, blotchy patches.
There was a dark puffiness under the eyes, and a strange swelling on one side of the cheek that threw the balance of the face completely off. A pull at the corner of the mouth, as if even a normal smile would look distorted.
A sound escaped her throat.
— Aaaaaaaah!
A piercing, ear-splitting scream made the entire cabin tremble. The nurse nearly dropped the mirror but managed to catch it. A
