Benjamin felt an inexplicable sense of panic, as if something was silently leaving his life.
"Ben!" Madam Moreland suddenly shouted, "Why are you bleeding?"
In his black suit, Benjamin appeared normal at first glance, but he stood there for a long time, while a dozen drops of bright red blood pooled at his feet.
Everyone's focus had been on Grace's disappearance, and they hadn't noticed that every few feet along the path Benjamin had taken, a drop of blood had fallen.
Amelia Clarke looked at the floor beneath her feet, where the bloodstains had been stepped on and turned into small shoe prints.
"Ben! You..." Madam Moreland's voice shifted from anger to alarm, "Go to the hospital! Hurry to the hospital!"
Upon hearing his mother's frantic cries, Benjamin looked down in confusion and saw a puddle of blood at his feet. Waves of intense pain inundated his waist, and his vision went black.
