With his free, icy hand he started to caress her cheek, wiping the tears away as they fell from her eyes, he moved in closer, opening his chapped mouth, a black slime poured from it, trickling down over Vivian's gray sweat shirt. ... She was surrounded by the smell of death, the hungry maggots, and the putrescent black that dripped its cold wetness onto her face. ...

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