Thursday, September 26, 2013

Word: Sectile



 

sectile

\ SEK-til \  , adjective;
1. capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.

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His arm trembled as he looked at her.  The light from the single hanging bulb shined down on his best, and only, friend.  The girl looked up at him and trembled.  Her bright blue eyes were wide with panic.  He took a deep breath and placed his friend on the exposed skin of her arm.  It would be so easy.  Her skin was soft.  It would be so easy to cut.  Just like a fine cut of meat.  It wasn’t even all that different when he thought about it.  After all, humans were just another animal.  That could think.  And talk.  And scream. And it was purely coincidence that he counted himself among their numbers.  But that didn’t matter to his friend.
               His friend wanted to cut her, badly.  It had told him so.  Not in words though.  His friend didn’t talk.  Couldn’t really.  It didn’t have a mouth after all.  But it still told him.  It spoke with him on a deeper level.  Spiritual almost.  Somehow he always knew what it wanted.  It usually wanted to cut things. 
               At first his friend had been content with smaller animals.  Cats, dogs, birds and the like.  He had no hesitation giving his friend what it wanted then.  The animals didn’t show their fear as his friend bit into their flesh.  It simply glided through them, and he relished the feeling of the resistance of the meat against his friend, almost as much as it did. 
               That had soon proven to be insufficient though.  His friend demanded more.  Bigger animals.  More flesh to cut.  He had moved up to the large animals.  Pigs, sheep, goats and the like.  That was harder.  Those animals were tricky to find, and even more so to gain access to.  But he had managed.  When those no longer satisfied his friend, he attempted something even larger.  A horse this time. 
               The horse was big enough to fight back though.  His friend didn’t cut into its flesh nearly as easily as the other animals, and the large beast was strong enough to throw his around.  No, the larger animals that his friend craved couldn’t come from any barnyard beast.  He had to find another kind of flesh.  One that was both easier to find.  And to cut.
               Humans were to obvious choice.  Plentiful no matter where he went, and very easy to cut.  He knew that from the times his own skin had been damaged.  He chose his mark well.  A pretty twenty-something girl with bright blue eyes and golden hair.  If he had been ten years younger he might have chosen to ask her to dinner.  Instead he offered her nothing but a chloroform soaked cloth.
               Now that same girl looked up at him with silver tape stuck tightly over her mouth, and bound limbs.  She was scared of him.  Of his friend.  Another set of deep breaths to try and calm his nerves.  He tried to cut her.  His arm stopped just before he could.  His friend was almost screaming at him now.  It wanted desperately to sink into her.  He couldn’t bring himself to do it though.  Was this his first fight with his friend? 
               She seemed to sense his hesitation.  Her eyes changed from fear to pleading.  She was asking him to let her go.  Asking him with her eyes.  Asking him on a deep level.  Spiritual almost.  Like his friend did.  He wanted to do as she asked.  But he also wanted to make his friend happy.  It had always been there for him after all. 
               He paced around the small room.  His breathing was quick, almost as scared as the girls was.  He didn’t know who to listen to.  The girl, one of his own kind, or his friend, who had always been there for him.  A sudden pain in his arm brought him out of his thoughts.  His friend was there, biting his arm.  Dark red blood oozed out of him and around his friend.  His friend was angry at him.  He looked from his arm to the girls. 
               He walked quickly over to her and placed his arm against hers.  Her eyes showed fear again.  He was sure he would have screamed and pleaded with him if her mouth was free.  Taking another series of deep breaths, he pressed his friend deeper into his skin.  Then, he quickly sliced it out of him and into her.  Her body went rigid with the sudden pain, and he could swear he heard her scream.
               He looked at his friend.  No blood.  The cut had been too fast and too shallow.  He looked at his arm.  Blood leaked from the open cut.  He looked at her arm.  More blood.  He looked at his hand. He wasn’t trembling anymore.  Slowly, he dug the tip of his friend into the girl’s open wound.  It sank deeper into her flesh smoothly and easily.  Just as he knew it would.  He drew it out.  There was blood on his friend now.  It was happy with that.
               His arm wasn’t shaking anymore.  He looked at the girl, and then to his friend.  It was happy with the small cut, but still wanted more.  A small smile formed on his mouth.  His friend wanted to cut. The girl had lots of flesh to cut.
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Remember people, if you think an inanimate object is talking to you, even without 'words', seek psychiatric help.  Quickly.  

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