HT100 Challenge #51--Hands on: Red in Tooth and Claw

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With the first swipe, his smoldering fear was shoved aside by something that pumped power through his veins, made his arms feel ten times stronger, turned his hands into organic weapons that hardly seemed like they could be part of him. As fingertips like razors sliced red ribbons through white skin, he admired the efficiency of being born with knives he could grow and dispose of at will, a natural survival strategy.

When the danger had passed, he stared at the body on the floor. “Survival,” he whispered as he turned and staggered away. “That’s what this is. That’s all.”