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Pyre, Lucas Lex DeJong

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Pyre

Lucas Lex DeJong

Leon's panic stricken eyes locke don hers, wide and full of fear. "I killed her," he confessed in stunted gasps. "In the crematorium. Ten years ago." The meaning of his words began to dawn on her, and she pulled backwards slowly. "Leon," she asked in an overly-calm voice. "What did you do?" He began to break down in tears. "I killer her," he wept. "Burned her up. I had to. She attacked me. She couldn't have been alive. She wasn't alive." Leon's mind was slowly surfacing back to reality, and his sentences took more form. "I was doing an autopsy. On a girl. Sexual assault victim. She was... mutilated, terribly. I was halfway through the autopsy, when she... " Leon began to cough heavily, starving himself of oxygen. "She came alive. Impossibly. She attacked me. She would have killed me." He began sobbing heavily again. "She's still trying to."