deformed bone

"I am the light of the world. Those who follow me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

—John 8:12

Calvin dreamed of Isa again.

"I've been dreaming about you a lot during this time."

Calvin spoke to the young girl calmly.He and she are now in the red beard's bar, the light is very dark, only a small lamp is left on the bar.Calvin glanced at the middle of the dark hall. The chairs were placed on top of the small round table, and the legs of the chairs were facing the ceiling straight.Somewhere in the corner, an old-fashioned record player that should have been broken slowly rotated, and nostalgic music flowed out like a stream under the moonlight.

"I don't remember a time when that shitty place looked like this—" Calvin tapped his fingertips on the tabletop, which was as cold as a tombstone, and he sighed, "I bet you watched a movie Well, that's not the case with the Redbeard, where even when it's closed the floor is full of sleeping drunks."

"I know."

Isa sat across from Calvin, and she muttered vaguely. "But I still love it there ... Mum and I were happy at the time."

The young girl still looked like a rotting corpse, with corpse spots all over her body, her face and hands were swollen due to rot, and countless poisonous-looking worms emerged from the rotting flesh.There were only two black holes left in her eye sockets, and black tears like paint trickled down her cheekbones.

Calvin thought of what Reed had said, the shit about cups and water.

He closed his eyes, then sketched in his mind the image of Isa he wanted to see.And when he opened his eyes again, the rotten Isa gradually returned to its original appearance, her cheeks were like soft and fluffy bread, with a healthy blush on her face, her ginger hair was soft and shiny, with a dot A vintage diamond hair accessory.

Calvin didn't know if Isha had noticed the change in himself, but he decided to put Isha in a beautiful red dress and a pair of ballet shoes with straps.

She had whispered about the dress to Calvin once, and she was so young but had organized her own high school prom dress.

Of course, that dress was a bit too mature for Isa now, but Calvin instinctively felt that Isha would be happy with this dress.As he sketched the colors of the fabric in his mind, he felt a kind of heat spreading through his body, as if his feet were immersed in warm water, the heat rose slowly, and then spread all the way to his back.

"call……"

Before Calvin knew it, his wings had grown.

Compared with the injured wings in the real world, his wings in the dream have undergone tremendous changes—the wings have become extraordinarily huge, but have an illogical lightness.Even in such dim light, the feathers on the wings were still bright and white, as if they were glowing themselves.

Calvin even felt that his body became lighter, the invisible air currents surrounded him and supported his body, and as long as he wanted, he could even use those air currents to support his whole body in mid-air.

Calvin turned his head, and he glanced at his wings.The amazing thing is that in reality, he is full of disgust for his own wings, and his mind is full of cutting off the pair of deformed organs, but here, in this blurred and illusory dream, he is completely used to it. The presence of wings.

That pair of wings, like all his limbs, has been thoroughly integrated with him into a whole.

"Brother Calvin..."

"You said that you must buy a dress like this when you grow up... You have a good vision. If you can grow up, you will be very suitable for this skirt."

Calvin said to Isa.

"I saw your mother." Calvin reached out and wanted to stroke Isa's hair, but for some reason his hand stopped in the air, "I'm sorry, I can't do it, you said don't let me hurt her— —But, I can't. I think I did something pretty cruel to Madeleine. I'm sorry, Isha."

Isa stared blankly at Calvin in her own skirt.

"No, Brother Calvin," Isa's voice was tainted with that lifeless breath again, "It's not you who hurt her, but the devil around you...Brother Calvin, be careful, don't let him hurt Mom, Don't let him lead you down dark paths..."

"Ka-Ka-Ka-"

The lights on the bar dimmed slowly, and the record player in the corner malfunctioned at the same time. The original soft nostalgic songs changed little by little during the malfunction, and it sounded like some monster was neighing in the corner.There was an evil aura spreading out in the darkness, crawling, ready to show its teeth and claws to Calvin at any time.

Calvin jumped down from his seat suddenly, and he looked around vigilantly.

"what happened?"

"Do not--"

Isa let out a long wail, and the moment Calvin turned his head, he was shocked to see an old wooden door appear out of thin air behind Isa.

A figure, pale, thin, and evil, loomed indistinctly through the crack of the door.

Then a pale hand poked out from the door, firmly grasping Isa's wrist.

"Brother Calvin - no - be careful - be careful of those around you -"

Everything happened in an instant, and Isa didn't even have time to say all the words before she was pulled into the crack of the door by the people behind the door.

She was torn apart like an aged cowhide water bag. The skin, bones, and internal organs were all poured on the ground in that short moment, and the thick black blood splashed everywhere, covering her head and face. Caught off guard Calvin—

……

"Well……"

Calvin opened his eyes on the bed.

He stared blankly at the striped wooden ceiling with its old luster and deep black wood scars, and it took him a while to calm down his breathing.

The place beside him was empty.

Calvin reached out and touched the sheet, but there was no wrinkle or body temperature.Last night's Reed didn't seem to be sleeping in the same room as him.Calvin raised an eyebrow, self-loathing at the slight disappointment that flitted through his mind.Then he got dressed as usual and walked out of the room slowly.

Downstairs in the restaurant, Reed was standing at a table, wearing an apron with discounted promotions, the sleeves rolled up above the elbows.And right now, he's one of those real housewives tossing squeaky bacon in a pan on top of golden fluffy scrambled eggs.

Calvin smelled a strong smell of fat and cheese.

"Wow... this is..."

Facing the exquisite breakfast prepared by Reed, Calvin felt that his tense muscles were gradually relaxing.

"breakfast."

Sensing Calvin's arrival, Reed stopped and looked up at Calvin and said.He made a rather exaggerated gesture to show Calvin the food on the table—

"Good morning, my lord, I hope my craftsmanship can satisfy you."

"At least it looks delicious."

Calvin responded.

"That's good, my skills are still a bit behind compared to Xistu. To be honest, I may have to let him appear, but..."

"but?"

"But I think I might be jealous."

Calvin couldn't help but froze, he looked at Reed a little bewildered, and the latter blinked at him.

"Well, it's not 'possible', but 'certain'. Just thinking about you being alone with Histu makes me feel that every muscle and every nerve in my body is not quite right."

When Reed showed up, the green-eyed man was always extraordinarily sexy, charismatic, and even slightly dandy-dangerous.Calvin had to admit that maybe this was what attracted him to Reed, but at this moment he felt a subtle annoyance with him because of it.

He found himself becoming clumsy, as it were now, and Reed was making lightly innocent jokes, but he couldn't help becoming swayed by that one joke.

Once again the question he had to face resurfaced, if he really wanted to be with Reed, what did anyone else mean to him?Is it part of this body, or is it alone, whole, just someone else without a real body.

"Calvin? Sorry, what I just said made you uncomfortable again?"

Reed observed Calvin, and he waved his hand in front of Calvin's eyes.

Calvin came back to his senses, and he pushed his troubled thoughts to other places, but on the surface his attitude was the same as usual.

"It's just a little...a little sleepy."

He said.

"Nightmare again?"

The brisk expression on Reed's face changed to a serious one.

Calvin sighed: "Maybe there are other things besides nightmares..."

【"Be careful of the demons around you—"】

demon?

Calvin has one and only one companion, Reed, but Calvin doesn't think he can be called a demon.

Calvin glanced at the sumptuous meal on the table and thought.

In any case, he couldn't connect the man in front of him who loves cooking (and his other personality is quite good at doing housework) with the demon in the mouth of the ghost.

"Well, I knew that that woman obviously wouldn't have any positive influence on you last night."

Reid frowned, he looked a little worried.

Mentioning Madeleine, Calvin felt a headache for a long time, and even the hunger caused by food ebbed from his body in an instant.

"How's Madeleine?" Calvin asked.

And Reed raised his eyebrows: "It was very quiet all night. I went into the room and brought her breakfast just now. She seemed emotionally stable. Well, at least she was not as crazy as last night, but I think she seemed to have forgotten yesterday What she went through that night."

"Forgot?" Calvin couldn't help repeating.

Reed spread his hands towards him: "She was asking who I am, and then she was asking where Isa went...Anyway, she looked weak, so I took off the tape on her hands and feet. Let her eat."