[Coco] Death by Dawn

pengychan:

This is pretty much an alternate scene from Down to Dust – namely, picking up at the end of this chapter.

In case you’re wondering, @regneriisch is entirely to blame for this.

So yeah, let it be known that I take only half the blame.

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Ernesto hadn’t realized the boy was there.

All he could hear was the howling of his alebrijes outside the mausoleum, all he could feel the cold dusty stone beneath him, and pain. His head hurt, something not too far away from panic had seized his throat. He kept his eyes screwed shut, curled on his side, praying for the end as much as he dreaded it. Surely the sun would rise any minute now. Any minute now. Any minute–

A sudden grasp on his shoulder, and a yank as though someone was trying and failing to drag him across the floor, caused Ernesto to recoil and look up. In the dim light coming from the candles outside, he could barely make out the face looking down at him. Even with the markings – pale blue and silver, with dashes of purple – it took him a few moments to realize who he was looking at.

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