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/*Needle.*/

The Prescripts interrupted.

"Needle...?" Yan whispered.

"Needle!" She screamed.

Her voice tore across the rooftops.

The needle she took from Dino's corpse!

Her hand dashed through her cloak, pulling out a hypodermic needle from its folds.

Glowing purple hopes filled her eyes.

She roughly jabbed the needle into Sayako's body, scraping the woman's bones.

There was no time.

Sayako wasn't breathing anymore.

She pushed down the plunger, squeezing out every drop of liquid into the woman's body.

She waited.

Then waited.

Tears threatened to drip from her eyes.

But she didn't cry just yet.

Please.

Not yet.

She waited.

Then waited.

More than a few eons passed.

A single whimper wrenched itself from her throat.

Then-

Sayako's lungs rattled as she took a deep breath of air.