BITTEN Omnibus Edition (Books 1-3): The Resurrection Virus Saga by Tristan Vick

Author:Tristan Vick [Vick, Tristan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regolith Publications
Published: 2016-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

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Once in a Lullaby

Minato Region, Tokyo Tower

Panoramic blue skies filled the gaping hole in the roof of the lorry truck’s carriage. Saeko gazed up at the tranquil clouds wafting by and remembered fondly when she used to pretend they were the shapes of animals. She half-expected to see a flock of birds fly overhead, but ever since the outbreak there had been barely a twitter or a peep.

Saeko looked around and discovered that she was lying inside what appeared to be a delivery truck full of pastries and breads. It had probably been on its way from the bakery to the local supermarket or convenience store, she mused.

The large aluminum carriage was filled primarily with cardboard boxes that, in turn, were filled with little individually wrapped breads and soft cream-filled pastries. It was like falling through a tinfoil blanket only to land on cardboard filled with hundreds of little puffed-up plastic-wrapped bread pillows. Again, Saeko found that she had somehow managed to cheat death. Even so, that didn’t prevent her from feeling the splitting pain in her side.

Looking down at her torso, she discovered the cause of the searing pain. A large shard of aluminum had torn off when she slammed through the carriage’s roof and had cut through the right side of her abdomen. Straight through her kidney. The gory scene looked as though a crazed magician had tried to saw his showgirl in half, only with a real saw, leaving the ghastly blade in so she’d bleed out on the stage for all to see.

Alarmed, Saeko grabbed the aluminum sheet with both hands and took a deep breath. White-hot pain surged through her side as she pried the metal sheet out of her abdomen. Eventually the sharp twinge of pain suddenly became too much to bear and she screamed out in agony.

Discarding the scrap metal, Saeko waited for her side to heal. It would only take a few minutes. The more she grew accustomed to her newfangled powers, the more she realized that it was possible to literally count the minutes it took for her body to mend itself. She was getting better at gauging the time it took for certain types of wounds to heal too. For example, a broken bone took about fifteen minutes to mend itself whereas a flesh wound, such as a serious gouge like the one she was currently dealing with, took about five minutes to completely mend.

Waiting for her body to heal, she continued gazing up at the blue sky overhead and contemplated the fact that she couldn’t even die right. If the thousand-foot leap off Tokyo Tower couldn’t even end her, as morbid as it was to think about, Saeko wondered if it was even possible for her to die.

Every awakening was too damn painful. Broken bones and dislocated limbs had to be reset. Bone fractures mended themselves. Dislodged teeth somehow grew back in. No matter how badly she got beat up, no matter how disfigured she became, somehow her body always snapped back into shape.

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