Claws of Mercy

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Natalie Yacobson. Claws of Mercy

A gloomy hospital

Statues

Pagan gods

Fatalism

Ushebti

Shadows at the construction site

The mysterious brunette

Locked up

The ghost of a nurse

Surgery

After the nightmare

Nocturne

Hospital sects

Awakening

Blackness

Visit

Secrecy

Hints

Fatal coincidences

Pentagram

The breath of fear

Strange patient

The seventh generation

A rose on a grave

Vintage

Two wounds

Someone else’s notebook

Black and red lilacs

Rosa Shipovskaya

Luciferiana

The Abode of Blood

Pantheon

Epilogue

From the author

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“Here they heal” read the sign on the gate. For some reason, he thought it read “Here they kill.”

In any case, the backwoods place boasted a splendid attraction. If only an infirmary could be called a landmark? Probably, since the building itself resembles a palace with marble columns. That’s what museums look like, not hospitals. The walls themselves reek of luxury and antiquity. Seven ominous angelic statues are perched on the edges of the staircase, as if in mockery of doctors who cannot save human lives unless the higher powers allow them to. Ruslan saw drops of blood on the wings of one of the angels.

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The guard obviously did not like this curiosity. For a moment it seemed that he would ignore the question, but he answered with grim humor:

“Get drunk, have fun, have a disaster. Now twenty workers and five engineers are in the hospital.”

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