The Reflecting Skin Page #2

and grey hairs? Look.

Yeah.

You can?

Come and sit next to me.

Come on.

- Do you know what that is?

- No.

It's one of my Adam's teeth.

- This? Do you know what this is?

- Hair.

That's right. My husband's hair.

These are his reading glasses.

This is his comb.

You see? It's all that's

left of him now.

Just a box of bits and pieces.

You fall in love, and almost at once

that loved one dies,

and you're left with nothing.

Nothing at all.

Just a few memories

and a house where he was a boy.

Nothing but dreams and decay. And a box!

A box from his childhood.

A childhood you weren't even a part of.

Bay-Rum.

Oh, this... this is the smell of him.

Oh...

It's him... it's him!

It's the smell of him.

The smell of him...

Oh, my darling... my darling...

Smell my dead one!

A vampire...

She's a vampire!

There...

- You're awake.

- A little.

It's time you were asleep.

No, Ma...

- What is it now?

- Nothing...

- Just grow up and go to sleep.

- But...

- You want the water?

- No.

Then the light goes out.

Water!

Every last drop.

You're not finished yet, my boy.

I'm gonna burst, I gotta go...

Not until you've finished.

Every last drop. Go on! Drink!

I'll be sick...

Then you'll just have to be sick.

Keep on drinking.

I can't, Ma, really!

- Go on, you haven't finished...

- Ma...

Drink it... drink it!

You're gonna drink until

your stomach's fit to burst!

You're gonna drink it all, Seth Dove,

even if it takes all night!

You're gonna drink it all!

I can smell your father.

The Lord's taken him

because I'm a sinner.

Just like He took my Rachel.

Taken who, Joshua?

I am a sinner! I drink.

I have bad thoughts.

Would someone mind telling me

what's going on?

Eben's missing.

We need the Sheriff. I keep telling him

we should call Sheriff Ticker.

No need for Sheriff Ticker

just yet, Joshua.

No... that's what I said.

We're not sure anything's happened yet.

'Course we're not.

When did you last see Eben, son?

- This morning.

- Where did you leave him?

Did the Lord take him, boy?

Did the angels come down

and pluck him from the wheat?

Did the Lord say: "His Pa is a sinner

and not meant to be happy?"

- No.

- Where was he going to, boy?

I gotta go! Pa!

She's a vampire, and she drinks

blood to make her young.

She's afraid to look into mirrors

'cos her reflection is gone.

And she hates sunlight, and she keeps

her husband in a black box...

and his sweat in a bottle.

How do you know?

She told me to my face.

She's two hundred years old.

- Do you think she killed Eben?

- Could be.

- But why?

- For his blood, stupid!

His blood?

Sure. If she don't get blood

then she starts to fall apart.

She said, "I get up in the morning

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