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responsibility but saddened too. Saddened because the beast has never caught a victim known to me
before. I say in a small voice which she will never hear (because I am trapped inside), "I'm sorry, I'm
sorry but it's got to be done, you see. How much of this can I take anymore?" and her eyes, I know this,
her eyes lighten with understanding, darken too, lighten and darken with the knowledge I have imparted.

And as the pressure begins then, the pressure that in ten seconds will snap her throat and leave her dead,
as the freezing colors of the city descend, we confront one another in isolation, our eyes meeting, touch
meeting, and absolutely nothing to be done about it. Her neck breaks, and in many many many ways I
must admitтАФI will admit everythingтАФthis has been the most satisfying victim of them all. Of them all.


The End



┬й 1975 by Ultimate Publications, Inc.

Originally published in Fantastic.

Reprinted by permission of the author.