Serial Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions - Fragment 10

Sing-song mockery.

Close now, little fingers like gleaming bloodless alabaster curled through the sandy-russet chain-links of his prison. 

Chin perched playfully on a long cross-bar in the manner of a mannequin that had simply uncorked its head and placed it thoughtlessly upon a shelf.

A grin as sweet and warm as freshly turned grave-soil, and then it’s gone again.

Lost to the Deeps.

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