head.
As the cadaver falls before him, so do all the zombies surrounding them. Some collapse into heaps of scattered bones. Others groan and tip over to meet the ground with a dull smack. The stranger picks up the bokor’s handle of rum and dumps the whole contents on his remains. As the last of it contacts the still burning torch in his dead hand, the bokor goes up in flames. As he ignites, Dominique hears the sound of a woman’s scream on the wind.
The stranger stomps toward Dominique with one machete in hand and a look of rage in his eyes. She whimpers with fear as she realizes she has control of her body again. She wastes no time turning to run from him, but she immediately trips over a small headstone and falls face-first into the muddy grass. She turns over to crawl away from him on her back. Dragging her naked butt backwards through filth and prickling green blades, she pleads with him.
“Please don’t kill me!” she cries. “I’m sorry!”
The stranger continues toward her with the machete in hand, dripping the oozing ichor of the dead.
“Ah’m sorry ah took the money!” Dominique screams. “Ah can give it all back! Just don’t kill me!”
The stranger stops in his tracks.
“The money?” he says, raising a curious eyebrow.
“Ah took the money from your room!”
“Yeah. I know,” the stranger says. He shrugs. “You can’t sneak anywhere with those beads around your neck.”
“Are you gonna kill me?”
“Why would I kill you for a briefcase full of money?”
“It was a lot of money.”
“Was it? I don’t really care about that shit. You can keep it if you want.”
“What?”
“Keep it.” He takes her arm in hand and hoists her up to her feet.
“Um, okay… So wha—”
She yelps as the stranger scoops her up and throws her over his shoulder. He begins walking away from the old cemetery at a pace that is unimpeded by her added weight, as if she is no heavier than a child’s toy.
“Where are we going?” she sheepishly asks.
“You agreed to the whole night,” he says. “The sun’s not up yet.”
FIN
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