marco

Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!

She could see now that some of the grime that covered him was blood. He looked to be six or seven years old. His ribs were showing and his belly sunk in towards his spine, leaving a hollow above his hips.

He was naked as a jaybird and covered in filth. He moved towards her with the same eerie grace that he had scaled the side of the barn, stopping to sniff the wind and look suspiciously around...His eyes were not yellow now; they were as black as his hair.

Celia, wait,_ Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. __ou are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me._ __t has to kill one of us,_ Celia says quietly.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

Ax-man. Cardboard isn__ one of the major food groups, remember?_-Marco