C40 Dear

Fear was slowly seeping out of the body —

On the way to the police station, I just stood there with my eyes closed, my head in a whirl, the image of Ke Lan fainting, the image of the blood spurting as I hacked down with my knife, kept coming back to me.

Are they dead? Dead, right?

That was all he had been thinking about at the time.

His hands began to shake slowly