Atonement (THE BOOK) Page 14

Its round head was as smooth as granite’s surface his fore head had vertical lines which soaked with age and time, bulging grey eyes, lidless; darting sideways most of the time. This was a nose less face and thick lips; twitching out of lack of correlation, of some facial muscles. The creature’s thin neck less head rested on a small body, the body of a week’s old child. The doctor watched the comatose woman lying on the operating table, while the creature watched him slowly licking its ugly lips. it’s perfect hands clamped down on the metal table in support as its head reared up as if its about to pounce. The doctor had requested to perform the surgery on his own, thinking it was a discovery which would be better launched with him in the limelight alone, even as a boy he had always loved to be the cynosure of all eyes this time was no different, immediately they had wheeled the woman in her stomach had continued to move even though medicine and any other form of reasoning, would have certified her dead for hours. The creature looked on as its short legs; home to very large feet continued to twitch endlessly as its tail thin snake like slowly recoiled round the doctors neck he stood transfixed eyes bulging, he knew there was no form of escape as the tail snapped his spine and then severing his head from his body as it shook in the spasms of death.