deformed bone

Rosa was kneeling in her room—in a corner of the front of the RV.It is close to the engine, and it is always noisy and hot on weekdays. The unique smell of engine oil in old RVs comes out from the yellowed plastic vents, and there is a nauseating smell of saliva in the air.But Rosa knew she should stay here, people like her belonged only here.

As Daniel told her, the suffering God gave her was to give her the opportunity to atone for her mistakes in the first half of her life.

Above Rosa's head, a dark wooden cross was glued with AB glue to the plastic wood-grained trim that had begun to crack.

Daniel brought this to Rosa from the Rose Bowl flea market the second year Rosa and Daniel met, and he told Rosa with that connoisseur's air that the cross was a real antique with a little The imprint of it shows that it comes from Turin, Italy.

"It may have been placed with the saint's shroud."

Daniel said.

And it was precisely because of this that every time Rosa knelt in front of this cross, she felt extremely at ease.

She always felt that the Supreme Power was gazing tenderly at her through the little golden crucifix on the cross.

"Forgive me—forgive me my sins—"

At this moment, Rosa was muttering to herself, while grabbing a heavy hemp rope and whipping her back back and forth.Blood and sweat soaked her clothes, and her spirit slowly became dazed and unreal in that intense agony.

"Crack-"

A small voice interrupted Rosa's nervous self-atonement.

The woman in a trance looked blankly in the direction of the source of the sound, and her pupils shrank for a moment.

"Do not……"

Rosa trembled.

The cross on the wall fell.

Rosa didn't know what happened. The cross fell to the ground with its head down and its feet up. It turned into an inverted cross and fell in front of her like that.

A terrible, evil symbol of the Antichrist.

Rosa felt herself almost suffocating.

"God, God...what the hell is going on..."

Rosa felt goosebumps of fear.

She grabbed the cross, and she couldn't believe it when she saw that there was a clear crack on the statue of the suffering Christ on the cross.

Rosa felt her eyes go black, she grabbed the cross tremblingly, and finally got up after falling down several times.

She staggered and ran towards the rear of the car.She knew Daniel would be there, and every time Calvin made a mistake, Daniel would be there to teach that child carefully and tenderly.

"Honey, I think something terrible has happened—"

Rosa muttered these words in pain, and then tore off the velvet curtain.

She saw Daniel and Calvin.

Her body stiffened in an instant as if she had been watched by Medusa, and her voice stopped abruptly.

"Rosa?!"

Daniel turned his head sharply, and he looked in shock at the woman who absolutely shouldn't be here.

For the first time in her life, Rosa saw a flicker of panic on Daniel's face.

Oh no……

She would rather Daniel could turn around calmly, and then show her that reassuring, calm smile.If that was the case, she believed that something must have been mistaken.

She is willing to trust Daniel - her lover, her mentor, her redeemer.

However, before Daniel spoke, he gave Rosa the truth of the matter with that touch of panic.

Rosa felt that she heard the sound of her heart bursting—"poof—"—a small muffled sound, like a sheepskin bag filled with hot water being punctured.The water in the sheepskin bag flowed out, and they ran wildly in Rosa's veins.

"you this--"

Rosa grabbed the cross and walked towards Daniel step by step.

At first her pace was slow, but after a few steps she rammed towards Daniel fiercely like a bull.

"—you fucking bastard! What are you doing to Calvin?!"

Rosa's anger almost ignited her whole body.She threw herself on Daniel and began to bite him hard.

At this moment, Daniel can no longer see that friendly and reliable gentleman. He retreated in embarrassment, with both hands parrying Rosa's nails.

"Calm down, honey, it's not..."

At the very beginning, Daniel tried to maintain his usual calmness. He wanted to explain, but Rosa seemed to have fallen into madness.

She threw the cross in her hand at Daniel's face.

"hiss--"

Daniel let out a gasp, he covered his face suddenly, numb pain came from the corner of his eyes.The wet, warm liquid wet his hands with a salty taste - Rosa had slit Daniel's face.

"You liar, disgusting pedophile, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you—"

Rosa screamed with a distorted expression, she raised her hand and continued to pounce on Daniel.

Daniel's mouth tightened.

"Shut up, bitch!"

The man easily grabbed Rosa's hair the moment she pounced on her, and he grabbed the frail woman's head and knocked it towards the cabinet at hand.

"mom--"

Calvin screamed.

The moment Rosa appeared in front of him, he had already completely collapsed.

That kind of fear almost made him stagnate, because a black shadow floated in front of his eyes because he unconsciously held his breath for a long time.

If there was anything that Calvin absolutely didn't want to see—I'm afraid it was Rosa who found out about it, which caused even more fear than Daniel himself.

His mind went blank, and time stood still—until Rosa's blood jolted him awake.

Calvin cried and jumped on Daniel's back, and he tried in vain to break Daniel's hand, letting out a completely out-of-key, terrified begging for mercy.

Daniel's movements stopped.

He took a deep breath.

"To shut up."

He said.

It is difficult to tell whether he is addressing Rosa or warning Calvin.

The young boy couldn't understand what Daniel was saying, and his cries poured down his throat almost uncontrollably.

Daniel's cheek twitched, and he growled unbearably.

"I told you to fucking shut up—"

Then he kicked Calvin away, and with his dainty, polished calfskin shoes, he kicked Calvin rolling on the ground a few times.

"You... bastard..."

Rosa uttered vague and intermittent curses while crying, which obviously made Daniel very dissatisfied.

Daniel turned his head, puffed up his cheeks, and made a smile-like expression.

"I've told you many times, honey, that you should learn to control your behavior - I didn't think it's been so long, and you still need my teaching. This is so disappointing, really , so disappointing.”

Blood gushed out of Rosa's nostrils like a broken faucet, and she began to howl in pain, waving her hands in the air in vain to try to stop Daniel, her hand fell from Daniel's wrist again and again because of the blood. She slid up and away—and Daniel grabbed her hair expressionlessly, once, twice, three times...continuously hitting the low cabinet with Rosa's head.

It's almost like a bored person casually patting a basketball to pass the time.

Calvin struggled to get up from the ground, his whole body was soaked in severe pain, there seemed to be a knife cutting his inner tent inside his body, he was panting uncontrollably, every time he passed The scorching air seemed to be igniting his respiratory tract.

He stared blankly at what Daniel had done to his mother, and suddenly the world seemed far away.

There was only blood in the world—his mother's blood, bright red, stinging and filling his vision.

Calvin blinked hard, feeling a scarlet or black emotion slowly igniting him like a flame.

He reached out and picked up a bronze statue of an angel that had fallen on the carpet, which was given to him by his admirers—the statue didn't even have a tenth of his beauty, and it was so heavy that it made people two Only one hand can hold it.

But at this moment, Calvin was surprised to find that the statue had become lighter...

Ah, no, it wasn't the statue that got lighter, it was he who got lighter.

Calvin had never felt so light in his body.

"Hula-"

His wings spread out suddenly.

Huge, useless wings that had caused Calvin so much pain for the past dozen years flapped the air vigorously.

Calvin's body lifted off the ground.

He raised the statue in his hand, and then knocked it down on the back of Daniel's head.

"boom--"

When Daniel's head touched the statue, it made the same sound as Rosa.

It's just that he didn't even snort much, and fell directly to the ground like a sandbag full of things.The back of his head was inlaid with one wing of an angel statue, and the copper wings mixed with blood under the light gave off a golden-like radiance.

One of his hands, still in the punching gesture, was now slumped at Daniel's side, and his other hand was pinned under his stomach.

And Daniel's face was buried on the ground, and his current appearance was even a little funny, as if he was dancing some kind of dance.

Calvin's wings slowly folded behind him, and the young boy landed on the ground lightly like a feather.

He looked at Daniel in shock, feeling that something was not quite right.But at the moment, he couldn't care less about where the trace of drunkenness came from. He had someone more worthy of concern—after a moment of stunned, he rolled and scrambled towards Rosa.

"Mother--"

he shouted.

"..."

Rosa has completely lost the previous appearance of showing her teeth and claws. She is sitting on the ground leaning on the low cabinet, staring at the scene in front of her with dull eyes.

The lower half of her face was a mass of blood, and the blood flowed down her neck to her chest.

Calvin burst into tears.

"Mom, are you okay..."

He cautiously reached out and touched Rosa's shoulder.

Then, he met Rosa's eyes.

It was a look that could freeze one's blood instantly.

"what have you done……"

Rosa muttered inarticulately.

"You, what did you do..."

Calvin looked back at Daniel.

The man was still lying face down on the carpet, motionless.

"It's all right, Mom," Calvin said tremblingly, suppressing his uneasiness, "I, I think he's passed out..."

"You killed, Calvin."

Rosa suddenly pushed Calvin's shoulder forcefully, her hands were as cold as death, and a hoarse cry poured out from her throat.

"My God, Calvin, you killed him—what the hell did you—"

"I……"

I killed someone?

Calvin felt a strong sense of unreality, as if he had suddenly entered another world.

He stared at Rosa wonderingly, almost unable to understand what she was talking about.

kill?

He found that the word seemed to have suddenly become another language—he couldn't seem to remember what the word meant at all.

While Calvin was in a daze, Rosa knelt on the ground and crawled to the side of Daniel's body with her knees, and she began to push him desperately.

"Daniel, man, come on... tell me you're okay... God... Daniel, come back to me..."

With her pushing and shoving, dark red pools of blood slowly spread out from under Daniel's body.

Calvin looked at Daniel, then at Rosa, and the cold feeling spread from his fingertips all the way to his whole body.

He finally realizes after all the chaos...very slowly that he might actually be in big trouble.

Perhaps, greater than all the troubles he had caused in the past.

"He, what happened to him."

Calvin asked weakly.

His voice sounded like someone else was speaking.

Rosa ignored him.

She looked completely broken.

"…no...oh my god...Daniel get on your feet...911...yes I'm going to call 911..."

She was talking to herself confusedly, then pushed Calvin who was standing next to her and rushed to the other end of the RV, the sound of things being knocked to the ground by her along the way was endless.

She is looking for her cell phone.

On the other side of the hanging veil, Calvin stood beside the motionless body of Daniel, his face pale.He was breathing so hard, it was like someone had stuck a finger down the middle of his throat.

Daniel's blood had spread to Calvin's toes at some point, and the boy was taken aback by the wet and sticky feeling at the top of his toes.

He took a few steps back in horror. From this angle, he could see a small piece of skin leaking from between Daniel's hair and the pool of blood. That piece of skin looked like the skin of a dummy, glowing with a strange blue color.

Calvin finally understood vaguely what he had done.

Like his mother said, he killed people.

He'll be sent to prison—he'll be sentenced to death—

Calvin thought.

He clearly recalled everything he saw after entering Jay Bay Prison during the day—he remembered the crazy and terrifying death row prisoner.

Calvin's breathing became extremely short, and the tooth marks left by the "Red Deer" on his fingers began to tingle.

He felt a part of his soul floating out of his body.

No, I don't want to--

Calvin vaguely heard the soul begging him in pain.

It took him a long time to realize that it was his own voice.

At this moment, he heard his mother's incoherent words——

"911? My lover...Daniel...Oh my god...Daniel he was knocked down... woo woo woo...he didn't move..."

Calvin was trembling with fear.

He knew the police would be here soon.

Soon he will be in that dreadful prison.

Do not--

no no no no no-

Calvin felt as if his body had a will of its own.He moved on his own, his wings tightly wrapped around his back.Lowering his body, the whole person tiptoed out from under the curtain. Covered by the furniture, he arrived at the door of the RV without any hindrance.During this period, Calvin held his breath. He had a strong intuition that Rosa would find him in the next second, and she would point to his body and scream "murderer" while talking to 911. The operator said that he was going to escape.

In the end, he came to the door much easier than he thought, because at this time, Rosa was still crying and talking to the 911 operator at the front of the car.

I will regret it--

I'm doing terrible things-

I'm going to be fucked—

Calvin's head was almost full of random thoughts, but this didn't stop him from opening the door quietly, and slowly pushing his body out through the crack of the door.

Until this time he still felt that Rosa would find him, but the strong wind, heavy rain and continuous thunder covered the last movement when he left.

His departure seemed to go with an almost dreamlike smoothness.

Calvin was amazed how easy it "should" be to get out of the RV.

It's almost like dreaming.

Ah, maybe he's just having a nightmare?

Calvin thought, inexplicably relieved.

He hoped that this dream would wake up soon.

At the last moment before leaving, Calvin squatted and turned his head, tears streaming down his cheeks, from his angle, he could see Rosa's thin back and profile.

"Mother."

Calvin opened his mouth and shouted silently.

This was the last time in his life that he saw his biological mother.

Volume [-] The Sabbath Sheep