I rip back the comforter and there, on his left arm, I see it.
His skin.
His human skin is melting. It’s literally dripping, puddling, soaking the sheets.
Beneath the liquefying skin is a horror I’d never imagined. It’s clear, like freshly-made ice cubes, and I can see the ghosts of his muscles twitching, his veins pulsing and the blood inside them quickening. A patch of skin near his elbow shrinks away like an accelerated film of thawing lake ice.
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