{"id":4554,"date":"2014-08-08T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T10:05:26","slug":"bloody-teardrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2014\/08\/bloody-teardrops\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Teardrops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2014\/08\/bloody-teardrops\/train\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3661\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/train-300x300.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3661 size-medium\" title=\"train\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/train-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>He told me I had blood on my mouth. I looked at him confused yet quite amused at his observation. &#8216;Your lip is bleeding,&#8217; he insisted. Grinning I licked my lips clean and tasted once again the blood that wasn&#8217;t mine. The last drop of my most recent sustenance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MortduSiecle-210x300.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3664 size-medium\" title=\"MortduSiecle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MortduSiecle-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>There is more,&#8217; said the man a little puzzled at my reaction. How could the poor thing possibly understand why I was so cheerful? Staring at him, I slowly wiped my mouth off with the back of my palm. We were sitting in a cabin, just the two of us, in the train to London&#8217;s splendid King&#8217;s Cross. I had been sitting in this train alone for hours and when my victim, a very young man, had entered this cabin, and no one else was around, I just couldn&#8217;t help myself. I enjoyed him like I enjoy a glass of Chardonnay and then I threw his body out of the carriage door. Then this man entered my cabin and I could not help myself from thinking that a second meal was being served. But I wasn&#8217;t that hungry anymore and I never killed for pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3648 size-full\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>&#8216;Perhaps this will help,&#8217; said the gentleman offering me a white handkerchief. I noticed he wore a beautiful ring, resembling some kind of device. I gracefully took the handkerchief from him and wiped my mouth clean. Blood stained the delicate material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Thank you,&#8217; I said giving him back the handkerchief. He had no idea who I was, what I was and where I was going. He had no idea that if he had been the first man to enter this cabin, he would be a bloodless corpse by now. He had no idea&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8216;Please, you may keep it,&#8217; he smiled at me. &#8216;Something to remember me by.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;You are too kind,&#8217; I replied. I looked at his face and realised that he was a handsome fellow. 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