When he was younger, the people at his church would take his blood, believing that it was sacred, straight from the Lord Himself. This constant torture was not only the reason Fyodor is anemic, but due to religious trauma, it only made him as religious as he is today.

But every time he were to zone out, all he would feel were the pricks of needles on his skin, recalling his youth that seemed like thousands of years ago.

“. . .”