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starting line:
Once his hands were clean, Tony went back to Alex’s bedside and put his fingers to either side of the comatose Mage’s head.
ending line:
Andreas’ skin had started to sink in on itself as Power and blood flowed from him; his heart still beat, and would until Tony ended the draining spell.
darling:
He stopped in his room and pulled a small, flat box out from under his bed. Opening it, he smiled as he pulled the limp piece of flesh from its bed of fabric, the edges sticky against his fingertips. Tony pulled out a small pocket knife and cut a slit in the flesh of his arm, squeezing the cut to pull some blood out. He smeared the blood on the edges of the mask, then carefully fit the face over his own. It had taken him nearly two hours to pull the face off the skull of the owner of the house, but it was worth it to give him a new identity. A few whispered words, and the face meshed with his own. Tony blinked, then smiled and went out to get his car.
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Epiphany! And now I need to rework my outline in the next few days. But I think it works better. Seriously.
And I had a plotbunny hatch yesterday. >.< No more, please!!!