Human skin is easier to cut than a piece of meat. 


Danielle knows this because as the first incision is being made it sounds like slicing into a ripe piece of fruit.


The scalpel carves around her upper chest, splitting her flesh into two sections as the ribbons inhabiting her body screams beneath Danielle’s skin, revealing the vines growing around her organs. A faint pulse beneath her chest cavity beats as the pink material weaves through her body, threading into the soft tissue above her heart. Coiling like vines on a fence as tiny buds trembled beneath Danielle’s throat.


Eli splits open Danielle’s sternum as she felt the ribbons bloom under her in an attempt to resist the procedure. It was apparent, whatever was inhabiting Danielle didn’t want out. So Eli suggested this surgical exorcism, if you will. So as he peeled back her skin, the ribbons twitched in response to his touch.


Danielle’s ribcage was no longer her own as she shared it with the pink threads. Eli attempts to rip them one by one as it inches towards her heart but the ribbons resisted. But the entity that was inhabiting her body as its host would not let go. 


Danielle laid withering on the dance studio’s floor as she shifts her attention back to Eli the surgeon who is digging his hands beneath her skin, searching for the source of the entity. Danielle grits her teeth trying not to squirm beneath his touch searching for the source of the ribbons. 


“I can't get it out." He admits frantically, pulling on her organs while flinching. 


Eli curses as his fingers find their way out of her body. 


"What are you doing?" 


"The ribbons are deep seated in your heart, unless I have another heart to give you those threads aren’t going anywhere." He exclaims. 


"Get it out!" Danielle argues. 


"You'll die!" He retorts back with more force. 


Danielle scrambles for a solution but couldn’t find one as Eli’s hands shake as he digs into her chest. 


Danielle watches as Eli as he grips the pocket knife in hand and takes a deep breath before plunging the blade into her, finally taking a piece of a ribbon from a between her rib cage.


During this he found something far worse in my lower abdomen. 


Danielle’s stomach was no longer functioning due to her stomach being filled with ribbons. The ribbons looped in knots surrounding her intestines. 


Eli curses under his breath as Danielle watched him stitch her back up with more threads, weaving in and out of me sealing her fate. 


“I can still feel it. It’s under my skin!” 


Danielle runs her fingers along the stitches that put her back together whilst feeling the ribbons swim beneath her touch. It’s like the ribbons liked the taste of her skin, eating her from the inside out.


Danielle’s eyes roll back, her body seizing as her spine arched in an unlikely manner causing what's left of her bones to crack. Eli watches helplessly as her vertebrae splits open, shedding skin morphing into something entirely different.