Preparations Part.2
[Drip. Drip. Red liquid slowly fell to the ground from her blade joining the pool of blood that was still growing, flowing out of the body. Creating tiny red steams by filling the cracks between stones.
Ayla was standing over a corpse in the middle of the Ruins. Staring at ai, shaking slightly. It was a corpse of a human. One she had just killed. One that just didn’t turn to dust. Of course it didn’t. It was a human, they didn’t do that. She knew that and yet it still hit her a bit.
Here he was. A boy, maybe over 16 years old. Few minutes ago he was wandering the caves, limping slightly. And now he was here. Dead but still existing. It was both disturbing and fascinating.
Ayla shook head to clear it. There was no point to think about it. It was for a greater good. And she needed to make sure his death wouldn’t go to waste. She put the Soul pulsing in her hand into a glass jar for later. It was better to eat it later or it could interrupt what they needed to do.
She didn’t know the details but she knew that human parts were valuable ingridients in various rituals. Most of the head: eyes, tongue, skull, face. Hands. Heart and a few other organs. She didn’t want to do it but it was necessary. The girl kneeled down and pulled out of the sack a few tools better suited for the job than her scissors.
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Ayla didn’t know how much time has passed. Maybe hour. Maybe a couple of them. Thankfully she could work undisturbed. She didn’t know if it was because noone was around or just because anyone who has stumbld upon the grisly scene had enough common sense to not approach her. It didn’t really matter.
She picked up the blood soacked sack, looked at the shallow grave where she put whatever was left from the corpse and turned around to go back home. She had enough of today. She was tired. She was dirty. She deserved a bath. With bubbles. And a bowl of happy, colorful sweets.
After all it was just a few days to the Halloween. To the day when the Veil was the thinnest. It will be a terrible day for her like every year. At least the preparations were almost done. But now she needed some rest. ]