Crushed Crown10

Cole

"Put it in his mouth!  Put it in his motherfucking mouth!"

The tent is crazy.  It's one of those wolf nights.  Most days like this my pack gathers in the large tent at the area of the Gardens known as the Yard.  They have much smaller tents that are freestanding around here but large tents like the one we are in right now are anchored using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs.  

The music is live.  It sounds like pure shit but I'm drunk enough not to be able to tell the difference. It smells like piss and semen.  Or both.  I'm used to it.   We got beer.  

"Thank you all for coming," Rhinegold states.

Rhinegold is sexy.  He's all muscle and brawn.  He's got all this hair on his chest and yet smooth on his head.  His eyes are big, bold and fierce.  His voice is deep the way a werewolf voice should be.  He's sexy but not handsome.  Not like King Walid.  Rhinegold was a man's man.  He had nothing cute or charming about him. This was what a wolf should be.  This was what an Alpha should be.  I'm staring at him and my dick hardens at the thought.  

The crowd goes nuts.

"Let the mud-fuck begin."

I grab onto Rory.  

"Wait...wait...I'm still sore from last time," Rory begs me, "I'll do it.  I just need.  I just need a little bit of time to heal up."

I grab him by his collar like the dog he is.  Rory is pitiful.  He's all tears.  You would think by now he would be used to this.  You would think by now he would stop his bitching and finally take it.  I'm annoyed that I even have to touch the piece of shit.  I throw him at that moment into the circle.  

Rory is shaking a lot more than last time.  Last time he just laid there with this lost look in his eyes.  This was different.  For a moment I wonder if Rory honestly is at his breaking point.  The kid is really shaking something vicious.  It's so horrible.

That's when Rhinegold's guests approach.

I take a look at Rory.  He has 3 men surrounding him.  They are all burly werewolf men.  Tall, strong and hairy.   They rip their pants off quickly.  All of them have big cocks and beards. They don't shave the pubic hairs like those prissy vampires nor do they hide behind silly baubles like the sanctimonious witchdoctors.  No.  These were werewolf men.  Big dicks and beards.  As I walk past their seats I can smell the scent and stink from the field from them.  It's a fucking turn on.  

"Look at that tight ass," one of them says.

He slaps Rory's ass.  I can see Rory yelp as a red mark appears on his ass.  I bet it stings.  I laugh a little bit.

"Spread those cheeks," another one of the men say.

Rory does as he's told.  I have to admit he does have a tight ass.  He's been pummeled relentlessly and somehow that tight hole of his just snaps right back into shape.  The crowd laughs as one of the men pours beer down the hole, lifts Rory's tight firm body high in the sky and begins to sip the beer right out of it.  

The men don't hesitate to get Rory on all fours.  Two move to the top while one begins to position himself behind Rory doggy style from the back.  

I watch as Rory struggles to put one of the big cocks in his mouths.  He's choking on it.  

"Rhinegold...your new beta needs to learn how to suck a dick," Flower Child says.

Flower Child, Tree Baby and Water Lily are all drunk.  The girls are members of my pack.  The Washington pack.  It's their lovers that are taking turns on Rory.  The women have been in the pack for a while and their men have status.  The Washington pack is one of the bigger packs.  I guess you would say these three were the top ladies of the Washington Pack.  They weren't ladies though.  Not like the vampire ladies who had money and class.  These were werewolf girls.  They aren't anywhere near pretty.  The only thing that was attractive about them was their big tits and the fact that their smelly vaginas managed to stay wet no matter what the circumstance.

I'm pretty sure it's Tree Baby who lets out a little moan as she pats her pussy clearly turned on by her husband shoving his dick into Rory's ass.

"That thing isn't Rhinegold's beta," I state.

"Not his beta?  As pretty as he is?" Water Lily asks.

The three women are fucking with me.  I know it.  I can feel it.  I was the prettiest wolf in this room.  I was Rhinegold's beta.  The fact that they were looking at that...that...CUM RAG that Rhinegold brought into the pack and considering it's his beta pisses me off immensely.

"He's NOTHING!"

I snap.  It's not like a beta.   Betas should be quiet.  They should be seen and not heard.  In the corner of my eye I can see my mother.   Her name was Sage of the Washington Pack. She gives me this look.  I know what my mother is thinking.  She's thinking I should shut the hell up before I piss off Rhinegold.  She has told me this over and over.  It just has gotten impossible since he's brought Rory around.  I hated Rory.  I hated him more than I've hated anything else my life in .

"There's nothing to worry about," Rhinegold states, "Cole you are my beta.  He's nothing more than an Omega."

Rhinegold gives me a kiss when he says it.  

"You mean it, my love?"

 

"Of course."

Rhinegold lowers my head.  He takes his dick out.  Tree Baby is fingering herself when she sees me go down on Rhinegold hungrily shoving my throat and engulfing his dick.  I was going to show these ladies how a real beta swallowed dick.  I was going to show them why I was Rhinegold's beta and Rory wasn't.  My mother looks on.  She smiles.  She approves as I slide up and down on Rhinegold's cock.  She was the one who initially taught me how to suck a dick.

"Make it wet..." he tells me.

I was good at that.  My mother taught me that a dick isn't a vagina or a Slip' N Slide that she used to take me on back before I knew I was wolf in Seattle.  It doesn't get wet on its own.  There was precum, but that's a light rain shower when a beta is required to wet his Alpha's dick with a torrential rain pour.  I use all the spit I have and when I can't deep throat I ram his big cock into the roof of my throat.  I use teeth.  He likes it when I use teeth.

I can feel his heavy balls swell up ready to bust as I cup them with my hands.   I keep them steady letting him know what I'm capable of.  I was going to make my mother proud today.  I was going to show her exactly what I was made of.

"I want to swallow all of you."

"Don't make me nut."

 

"What?" I ask Rhinegold confused at that moment.

"I just want you to wet it.  Good lube is hard to find in Eden."

I watch as Rhinegold takes his dick out of my mouth.  He walks over to the orgy at that moment.  Spit is still dripping out of my fucking mouth when he walks over to Rory and uses the wet dick I gave him to start fucking Rory!

I can't believe this is happening.  

I'm forced to sit there watching as Rhinegold makes love to him.  I hear Tree Baby, Flower Child, Water Lily's remarks over and over as she makes sure I'm close enough to get the brunt of her disrespect.

"I never seen Rhinegold nut that much..." one says.

"Not with anyone."

"He must sure like his new beta."

I can't take it anymore.  I walk out of the tent.  The moon isn't in the sky.  I hated these fucking red skies in Eden.  Everyone thought these woods were a paradise, but it was annoying.  The woods were much larger than any in Washington.  Sure.  They were so expansive.  I get that as well.  They were way more beautiful.  But we had to share these fucking woods with other packs.  We had to share these wolves with pretty betas.   And I had to share these woods with Rory.

I ruled in Washington.  Rhinegold was king and he treated me like I was that special crown on his head that he paraded around because of how pretty I was.  

Things were different in Eden.  Rhinegold was no king.  Walid was king.  And the only crown was the broken one that Genesis wore.

"You can't even make him cum anymore," she tells me.

I don't have to look back to know who it is.

Mother.

My mother was once a beautiful Beta.  Rhinegold came around and challenged my father, the Alpha.  Back then no one thought he would win.  Rhinegold was a werewolf from the south then.  He was a stray.  Everyone knew the southern werewolves were weak.  I knew different.  I always knew he was destined for greatness.  The day he ripped my father's body in two was the day that I fell in love with Rhinegold.  

My mother prepared me for Rhinegold.  And everything was perfect until The Howl.  The Howl was the invitation to Eden from Walid.

"I tried."

"You didn't try hard enough.  Did you finger him?  Did you moan softly like I taught you?" Mother asks me, "No.  You didn't do any of that.  He's lost interest."

"You heard him in there... Rory is nothing to worry about."

"Two minutes ago I just watched him relieve himself inside of Rory," Mother explains to me, "He should have been relieving himself inside of you."

Tears are swelling up in my eyes.  Mother has always been rather straight forward.  She was once beautiful.  She wore pretty flowers in her hair and she would comb it for 10 hours a day straight.   Her hair was gone now.  Her flowers were dead.  She had passed everything onto me.  All her tricks.  All her time.  Now she spent time putting flowers in my head.  Now she spent times brushing my hair.  She had everything invested in me.

"I'm trying my best."

"Your best isn't good enough," Mother Sage explains to me, "You were the one who helped him get involved with the rebellion but once the plan is over what makes you think he'll want you at his side?  Did you know that Ambassador Santos was framed."

"No..."

"Did you know that the DC pack was attacked?" she explains, "No doubt by King Genesis."

I pause.

"Rhinegold hadn't told me that."

"The plan is in motion.  And Rhinegold no longer trusts you to keep you up to date with it.  Why would he trust you with it?  Who would trust a used up, ugly beta who can't even suck a dick right?"

"I'm not ugly."

"You're getting there," my mother states, "Look.  Split ends.  Wrinkles."

 

"Because all you do is stress me out."

"And for good reason.   You might as well just sacrifice yourself to that witch doctor helping with the rebellion.  You're useless."

"That's not true."

"It will be unless you don't do something soon."

"I'll figure it out."

I had no choice.  I saw how Rhinegold looked at Rory.  I remember when Rhinegold first became Alpha, he would have all these men run a train on me.  He would have me battered and bruised.  And it was all a game to him.  How much could he accept before he got jealous enough to finally claim me as his Beta.  

Was he doing the same thing with Rory?

 

"You don't have much time," she explains to me, "Look.  He's leaving and he's not even telling you goodbye.  What kind of Beta are you?"

 

I turn.

There are some drunks stumbling out of the large tent but right after that is a carriage.  It's a royal carriage.  I see Rhinegold there.  He looks like he's about to get in.  

I look at my mother and I can see the panic in her eyes.  I have no choice.  I run over to the carriage at that moment as fast as I can.  When I get there I put my hands on Rhinegold's ankles, pulling at him like a puppy whose lost his way.

I look up at him.

"You're leaving."

"I have business to attend to," Rhinegold states.

"What kind of business?" I ask.

"Should I give you two privacy?" a voice states.

I see the person in the carriage.  I notice immediately who it is.  It's Ambassador Yas.  The Ambassador doesn't get sentimental with him from the palace.  He is on his own.  I knew this could only mean one thing.  Rhinegold was going to meet with his other co-conspirators.  

Rhinegold seems annoyed when he gets out of the carriage and pulls me off to the side, away from Ambassador Yas.  I can see Rhinegold is beyond pissed.  He's more pissed than usual.  

"You're embarrassing me in front of the Ambassador," Rhinegold states.

"Why won't you tell me where you're going?" I ask, "You always tell me where you're going.  We were in this together.  I was the one who told you to approach Ambassador Yas with the plan."

"Well I don't need you anymore.  I can handle it from here."

Hearing Rhinegold admit those words brings tears to my eyes.  My mother was right.  The plan to overthrow King Genesis was succeeding and Rhinegold didn't need me any longer.  He didn't need me spending time seeing which Vampire family had the most to gain from a rebellion or reaching out to the Lucii contacts personally for him.  He didn't need me volunteering to help Ambassador Yas only to steadily remind him of how important the bond of Alpha and Beta was any longer.   He didn't need me heading to the Witch Tower and finding a powerful witch who had a bone to pick with Genesis any longer.

He didn't need me.

Not anymore.

"Please," I'm begging.

I sound pitiful.

"I'm meeting with the others in the plan.  Genesis has entered the wolves.  He's going from pack to pack looking for conspirators.  He's looking for me.  The time to act is now.  We are meeting at the Red Rock Cave west of here.  The awakening is happening."

"How are you sure it will work?"

"Supposedly there is a witchdoctor more powerful than Genesis that is going to be awakened.  Someone more powerful than even Ambassador Santos or Yas.  Someone who we can bring to our side."

My mouth waters with anticipation.  The witchdoctor who rebelled against Genesis told us about someone like that.   Someone who would be able to grant us anything we wished if we could bring him back to life.

"Take me with you.  Please Rhinegold.  I can help."

"You want to help me?" he asks me.

"More than anything..."

"Learn to suck dick better," he responds, "Kind of like Rory..."

With that he turns and gets into the carriage.  I look at him feeling the heaviness of his words as he rides off.  It's at that moment I realize that I've lost Rhinegold.  I've completely lost him.  

~

I turn into a wolf and climb to the top of the hill to watch Rhinegold's carriage disappear.  I need time alone.  I need to lick my wounds.  I feel most myself in the form of a wolf.  A part of me thinks of running off and becoming a stray.  It would be better than staying in the pack and watching Rhinegold's omega become a beta.

Down the hill I can see how everything is lively in the tents.  Everyone had their parts to play.  The warriors enforced the will of the alphas but they usually were sent to the Blood Palace from each pack to serve Walid.  The hunters gathered foods.  The scouts were the scavengers of the pack.  They hunt small creatures and help survey the land with the warriors.  Then you had the Pup watchers and the subordinates.  

Finally, you had the Omega.

If Rory became beta...that is the role I would play.

The lowly role of the Omega.

I turn to the other side of Eden.  The gateway of Eden was the only way out.  Word had come that Ambassador Yas had closed the gateway.  Maybe I could sneak out.  Maybe I could go back to the human world.   Maybe I could go back to Washington where I mattered.

But I loved Rhinegold.

I turn back to the tent.  That's when I see it.  Smoke.  Panic.  Something was happening!

 

I run back down as fast I can.  We were under attack.  Who was it though?  Was it a rival pack?  Maybe it was Chocolate's pack finally getting revenge for Rhinegold killing him.  Maybe it was Basil's pack who had gone on the run after our pack had attacked Prince Justice.  Maybe it was Prince Justice himself bringing some vampires back for revenge.

I'm not sure.

When I get down I see a trail of bodies in my wake.  None were dead but they were...disabled in a way.  I'm confused even more when my wolf slowly sees my mother right outside of the camp.

"Help me."

My mother is bleeding out.  I move over to her.  My wolf is sniffing her.  I don't see any blood but it seems like something else has happened to her.  Her body is distorted in a way.   I look around at that moment.  I can see the trees seeming to sway in an odd way.  I can see dark shadows moving all around.  There is a heaviness.  There is no more music save in the big tent.  Only the sounds of pain.  There is no more happiness Darkness is everywhere.  It's the feeling you get when you take a drug that you've never taken before.  Uncertainty is filling the air.  

Something has run through the camp...

Something supernatural.

"Help me," she states.

I ignore her.  I was sick of her shit anyway.  If she was going to die out here, then so be it.  

~

I get into the big tent.  Curiosity wasn't only limited to dogs.  When I get into the tent I can see the revelry is still going on.  Maybe that's when I change back into human form.  

"He's coming!" I state.

My pack was all aware.  Rhinegold had made sure to warn them beforehand of what was happening.  The worst part of all of this however was that they were drunk.   I look over at the warriors.   They are too drunk to even know what I'm talking about and probably tired from fucking Rory into submission.

It's Flower Child who blusters out a quiet, "Who?"

"Genesis..."

I'm not the one who answers.  No one knows who answers actually.  The voice comes out of nowhere like a hissing of snakes.  It sings over our heads.  The torches that are lighting up the tent that we are in begin to flicker violently several times.  It gets so cold in the tent.  So fucking cold all of a sudden.  My mouth gets dry as though I haven't drunk in days.  And regardless of how dry my mouth is or how cold I am somehow I manage to start sweating...profusely.  I'm not the only one either.  I look over at the others.  The warriors are dripping sweat.  Water Lily, Flower Child and Tree Baby have all forgotten they were in their human forms and begun panting loudly from dry mouths.

Something was here.  I can feel it even before the torches are relit and a figure stands in the middle of the room.  It just stands there, draped in red.

It's the first time I've seen him.

Genesis.

"Hope you don't mind me crashing your party," he states.

Rumor had it that he had arrived in other packs.  The expansive garden of Eden was full of werewolf packs.  Most had broken off when they heard of the attacks.  I guess I always assumed he would come but the fact that he was here now actually scared me.  My heart skips a beat.

"You're always welcome to have a seat," Flower Baby tells the king.

Regardless of how welcome she would make it seem I knew they had other plans.  We all had been told by Rhinegold what to do if Genesis showed up.  I watch the warriors slowly begin to change.  They do it as the women distract the king and for a moment I think it works when the transformation happens quickly.  There are werewolves from our packs all over the tent.  They surround Genesis.  

"Seems like I'm in the right place," he states, "I'm looking for anyone who has information on the rebels.  Specifically, any attached to killing Exodus."

Word had come this far about Exodus.  Word had come back relatively quickly that he had died.  It was all part of the plan.  We needed to remove Genesis from his allies.  We needed him alone.  Now he was alone.  

I find myself stepping back.  A part of me felt like there was no way Genesis would be able to survive this.  Another part of me knew that this wasn't the plan.

"No one knows," Tree Baby states.

"You sure."

"Positive."

"Then how about this.  I need to find Rhinegold."

"Never heard the name," Flower Child responds.

"Really because I just went to another pack and they stated I can find him here."

"They lied."

"This can all be so simple."

"We rather it be hard," Tree Baby tells the King.

Growls start in the tent.   The King is surrounded by vicious wolves.  He doesn't flinch however.  He doesn't bring his head up in anyway at all to address the wolves.  I was proud of my people at this point.  The wolves were the ones who brought Genesis to power.  We were the ones who gave him the throne.  Did he think he won it because of some hocus pocus witchdoctors?  No.  It was our power.  And what did we get in return?

We got to live in tents.

We were barely even allowed into the city unless we served as his sentinels in the Blood Palace.  And he used Walid, Alpha of Alphas as his fucking lap dog.

No.  This was our revenge.  This was our...

Genesis interrupts my thought, "God once told Adam and Eve that it could all be so easy.  Life in Eden. This could be paradise for you.  For he is a merciful and loving god.  He is a generous god. Eden is my gift to you.  You will want for nothing.  Have I not been a merciful god?  Yes.  I have.  But it doesn't matter because temptation always comes along and ruins it all.  Along comes the snake..."

All of a sudden we hear this giggling.  Genesis is chanting something.  I know it's magic.  

"Attack him.  Attack him now!"  I scream out.

They don't listen to me.  They are so distracted by the sound of giggling in the room.  I know it's magic.  I see the shadow of a little girl.  We are all mesmerized as the little girl makes it into the room.  She begins to dig a hole into the ground.  

It's a small hole and the shadow of this child spirit giggles wildly as though this is the most fun she's ever had in years.  

Then she disappears.

"Is that it?" Flower Child laughs.

She's an idiot.  They all were for letting him complete his spell.  I start to back up.  I begin to back away as I see that little hole slowly become wider and wider.  Something is coming out of it!  My heart is beating!  My neck snaps as I think about running.  

I turn back only to see something coming out of the hole.  

"Along comes the Titanoboa."

 

It rises to the surface.  A snake.  The Titanoboa.  A titan worth of boa constrictors. The snake is more than 40 feet long and weighing more than a ton. This giant serpent looked something like a modern-day boa constrictor, but seemed to move like a modern anaconda.  It circles us.  It circles each one of the wolves.  

I turn to run.  I don't get far as the scaly creature blocks my path.

It's ready to end us all.  

"Wait!" I scream out, "I don't know where Rhinestone is...but I do have something...something even more valuable."

I have no choice at this point.  Most of us weren't going to leave here alive.  If I gave Genesis something valuable maybe he would spare me.

"What's that?"

I point to Rory whose laid out in a corner too exhausted to know any better or even defend himself.  

"His Beta."

~

It takes hours before I get to the Red Rock cave.  I have survived Genesis.  It feels like I have accomplished something.  I'm not sure what but I know that the first thing I have to do is be a good beta and make my way to the cave.  The cave is on the outskirts of Eden far out past where the werewolves don't even live.  

I walk into the cave and hear talking.

As I walk in I can see that I am clearly not invited.

"What are you doing here?" Rhinegold asks me.

He's annoyed.  He's standing next to Yas.  Yas gives Rhinegold a long loook.  I can tell that he's upset with the idea of me following them.  Rhinegold should have never told me where they would be meeting.  

The Lucii family of vampires are there.  All of them...even the youngest one who I thought wasn't aware of the plan.   They are all handsome looking pretty boys.  They smell pretty like most vampires do and look all uptight with their beautiful blonde hair and forever young faces.  It's hard to look at these boys as anything less than that.  They were just boys, pretending to be men.  We needed some representation from the vampires so this would do.

Then is the last conspirator.  The witchdoctor who is covered completely even his face.  

"This is very unprofessional," one of the Lucii states, "This is a secret meeting.

Rhinegold's face blushes red, "What are you doing here Cole?"

"Genesis..." I state, "He came."

Everyone stops.  All of a sudden it seems essential that they hear what I'm talking about.  I may not have been invited to their secret meeting.  Maybe I wasn't as important as the others.  

"Did anyone survive?" Rhinegold asks.

I sigh, "A few.  He wants people to tell the story.  He wants everyone to know that he's looking for Rhinegold and the rest of you.  He'll get his revenge."

"Rory?" Rhinegold asks.

It annoys me that he even brings Rory up.  

"He's been taken by Genesis."

Rhinegold looks down.  He's not the only one interested in Rory.  I notice the youngest Lucii.  I'd done my research.  His name is Luciano.  I watch how his eyes glare up all of a sudden.  It's not my imagination.  He's interested in Rory.  He has to be.

"He let me go.  He told me to find you.  He says if you want to see Rory again that you should meet him back at the camp.  He wants to face the rebellion and get this over with."

"Who cares about a werewolf boy?" one of the Lucii asks.

Another one of the Lucii men laugh, "Right.  Let him die."

That's when the youngest Lucii, Luciano butts in, "If we are going to rule Eden...we should stand up to him.  Maybe that's starts with saving Rory."

I notice how he cares.  I feel like no one ever cared about me like that.  I look over at Rhinegold.  My Rhinegold.  I notice how he nods in agreement.

"I believe we should accept his challenge," Rhinegold responds before looking at me, "How many people did the King have with him."

"He was alone. He says he'll stay alone.  He is angry.  He wants revenge for his brother.  He might be alone, but Rhinegold...he can summon things.  He has a huge snake with him.  Titanoboa that comes from the ground.  It swallows people whole.  I've seen it!"

I'm sweating.  When I say that I can hear chatter among the Lucii.  They were afraid.  They had good reason to be.  I look at Rhinegold though.  My beautiful Rhinegold.  He doesn't even break a sweat.  He's not scared of Genesis.  This puts me at ease.  

 

One of the pretty Lucii men are shaking their heads, "I warned you, Yas.  I warned you not to kill his fucking brother."

Yas shakes his head, "No.  This is perfect.  He's angry.  He is going at it alone."

"He has SANTOS!"  the eldest Lucii says angrily.

"Santos is dead."

"You're lying..."

"The entire royal family is dead," Yas states, "I arrested them and executed them myself.  Santos, Nero and Justice are dead.  Lucii.  We valuable your support and you are safe."

The Lucii seem far more at ease.

"We want Luciano to take his place as Walid's ambassador to vampires," the eldest Lucii states.

"That is the agreed to plan," Yas states, "And Rhinegold will take my place as Ambassador to the werewolves once I marry Walid."

"What about the witchdoctor...Micko?" the Lucii ask.

They are cautious.  A little too on the edge.  It's almost as though they are afraid.   

"What can he possibly do?"  Yas asks, "He'll probably be glad to get rid of Genesis once and for all.  Micko can remain in the place.  Genesis is at his most vulnerable.  Now is not the time for fear.  Now is the time for us to strike.   He's alone. He's being reckless. I'll return to the palace.  I'll make sure everyone in the palace is in the dark and no one interferes to help Genesis"

"What should we do?"  the Lucii asks.

"Genesis wants to face the rebellion.  We'll send someone to face him," Yas states, "Is it time, witchdoctor?"

The hooded witchdoctor still doesn't reveal his face.

He goes over to the shielded figure.

"Our secret weapon against Genesis is almost ready," The mysterious witchdoctor says, "We just need one more sacrifice to open the gate and bring him through to destroy Genesis once and for all."

That's when I feel a hand on my neck.

It's Rhinegold.

He throws me over to the witchdoctor, "Use him."

My mouth drops at that moment.  I'm shocked.  What the fuck?  

 

I'm panicking.  I try to get back up and Rhinegold pushes me to the ground.  There is no emotion behind those eyes.  None of them have any compassion towards me.  This is what my mother was talking about.  This is what happens when you don't matter anymore.

He wanted Rory.

He had chosen Rory.

"What?  Rhinegold!  Rhinegold, I'm loyal to you!  Rhinegold, I came here to help you!"  I stop.  Tears are streaming down my face at that moment, "Rhinegold!  RHINEGOLD WAIT!"

I don't even have a chance to beg for my life.  I'm so sad I don't see the witchdoctor come from behind me.  

I don't see him put a knife to my throat.

He lowers his hood.

I can feel his knife slowly start to carve my neck open.  I'm gagging as blood gushes from my neck.  I'm dying slowly as the conspirators look on.  

"My name is Brandon Ferris," he tells me, "I wanted to thank you for your sacrifice..."

 

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