Flawed: Regeneration

Photo By @laicho

4.9

His shoulder exploded in a red bloom. The momentum sent him stumbling a few feet but he recovered and kept running. He felt the familiar tingle as his flesh slowly knit together. He just had to get to the wall. He just had to keep counting.

4.7

He was familiar with the feeling. Dizziness, A creeping darkness right at the edge of his vision.

Anemia

His stomach exploded in a red spray in front of him. He fell into the puddle of red and slowly got up as the ground in front of him sparked with the impact of bullets

4.3?

That’s what nobody ever said. Your flesh could heal but you never got your blood back. That didn’t regenerate. Your body had to make more. And right now he was losing it, a bullet at a time.

Maybe that’s what vampires were. Back in the-

A sharp pain at his side told him he’d just lost more… There was no time to check.

4.2? 4.1?

In front of him: the wall. Behind him, bullets. Inside him, a fuel that was running out a little too fast…

He ran.

He counted.

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