Chapter 22

Zookie gave a single long groan and then went quiet and limp.  His body was still on top of Scott’s.   Jimmy knelt beside them, a strange and terrible sensation in his gut as he stared at the young boy’s pale dead face.  Zookie had ripped Scott’s throat open, severing the carotid artery clean through.  This artery was the main vessel for supplying the head and neck with oxygenated blood. Scott had bled out instantly.  His eyes were still open, wide with fear, but now lifeless and opaque.  Zookie was covered in Scott’s blood – it had soaked his face, neck and clothes.  The pocket knife still protruded from the back of his head, and Jimmy leaned forward and pulled it out.  It made a sickening squishy sound as...

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