Rather than resisting the homunculus set its feet and grabbed the nearby railing, giving Ragdoll enough leverage to tear the mask from its face. Before the head acolyte could order it to stop the mask came free with a horrific squelching noise.
Behind the mask was the withered face of a corpse. Its eyes and lips were sewn shut, its ears and nose were shriveled. Where the stitches had torn a gelatinous red substance seeped out, smelling faintly of rotting blood. Several strips of slick leathery flesh still hung in tatters from Ragdoll's mask. It had been impossible for them to simply find a corpse who could impersonate Ragdoll's freakish body and so they had made one, with its joints crudely broken and muscles torn out with knives before its skin was stitched back together.
Billy's shriek cut through the cool morning air as the homunculus toppled to the ground, lifeless as a puppet with cut strings.
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Date: 2013-05-25 01:43 pm (UTC)Behind the mask was the withered face of a corpse. Its eyes and lips were sewn shut, its ears and nose were shriveled. Where the stitches had torn a gelatinous red substance seeped out, smelling faintly of rotting blood. Several strips of slick leathery flesh still hung in tatters from Ragdoll's mask. It had been impossible for them to simply find a corpse who could impersonate Ragdoll's freakish body and so they had made one, with its joints crudely broken and muscles torn out with knives before its skin was stitched back together.
Billy's shriek cut through the cool morning air as the homunculus toppled to the ground, lifeless as a puppet with cut strings.