His broken jaw that had been locked shut snapped open so wide and so fast that the hinge popped audibly and then snapped back into place with a crack that made Phei's ears ring, teeth clacking together hard enough to shear through his own tongue in a fresh fountain of blood.
Fresh piss ran down his thighs. Hot, this time. His body had found one last thimbleful of liquid to lose and lost it immediately, the stench blooming thick and acrid in the already choking air.
His eyes bulged... his pupils blew wide and then wider, expanding until there was nothing left of the ice-chip blue, the whites around them pressurizing until a thin capillary burst in the left one and flooded the sclera with fresh red.
Blood erupted from the corners of both eyes in thick, pulsing ribbons, as though something behind them had ruptured under impossible cosmic pressure. Then from his ears — twin dark trails running down his neck and pooling in the hollow of his collarbone.
