Excerpt: Blood and Honor

Then the fun began. He sat there in silence for two seconds then his eyes widened as he felt what can only be described as his lungs tearing themselves out. The table then reversed itself so that he was looking straight at the floor. Then he vomited. It was mainly stomach bile, but he could also see black in there. It was a small amount but it was there. Then he saw other black drops falling into the bucket as well. He finally figured out that it was coming from his nose just in time for him to vomit again. He came close to the point of blacking out but for some reason he never did. He noticed that the lab assistant was gone as he continued what he was doing for two hours. Finally he stopped. He had closed his eyes half way through the process and he finally opened them again. The muscles on his entire body relaxed and the pain subsided. Then he took a deep breath, and smiled. He had taken his first real breath in four years.