Kujaku--Mai

I follow The Lynx for several days to learn about her. That’s when I notice that I’m not the only one doing it. There is another man that watches her. I don’t recognize him so he can’t be important but he does help me decide what I plan on doing. I follow him to his house one day and find him setting rope aside. I do a quick search and discover chloroform in the house as well. It’s a simple enough matter to use the liquid to knock him out and then I move him to my house where my supplies are.

I’ve got him tied down when he wakes up and he immediately starts to panic.

“What do you want? Money? I can give you that. Please anything. I’ll give you anything.”

“Excellent,” I tell him cheerfully. “What I want is your life.”

“My…what! No please. Anything but that.”

“You should be happy,” I inform him. “You’re going to make a marvelous gift. I hadn’t been sure what I wanted to do until I saw you so thanks.”

He doesn’t get the chance to beg anymore as I swing the ax down on his neck. It takes a couple swings but then it rolls free and blood spurts covering my hands and face as I grin wildly.

I love Christmas!

I move the head and the body into a clear spot where I can light them on fire. Then I proceed to wait while the flesh burns off it. I’m careful to keep an eye on it and then I get the bones out before the fire can damage them. I then clean all of the soot off of them and transfer them to a bench.

From then on it’s the trickier small stuff. I have to be careful as I cut the rib bones and then smooth down the edges with sand paper. Next is drilling a small hole through each bone and then running a wire through it. I tie a knot at the end of each and then turn to the skull.

I saw through it carefully, separating the back of the skull from the front so that I have the side with the eyes and mouth. Then I pick up the drill again and carefully put holes in the eye sockets, nose, jaw bone as well as in the cheek bones. Then I run the wires with the rib bones into the skull and tie them off. I tie a larger wire though the skull so that it can hang from the ceiling and test it out. The bones clank together nicely but the whole thing looks rather plain.

I frown at it in thought before an idea hits me and I head outside to visit the zoo. Killing a peacock is easy though I do have to wash some of the blood off its feathers. I tie wire around the edges of each feather and string it in among the bones and admire the color.

There.

I collect the item carefully and then go to her house and knock on the door.

<Yes he made her wind chimes out of a dead body and a dead peacock. Yami Marik gives the best gifts! The man Yami Marik killed could be anyone but I was imagining it as Jean-Claude Magnum and as such there has been news about his disappearance. I feel like I should also say that I have never made a wind chime out of bones before and this probably would not work in real life. I'm not sure about Mai's nickname but I couldn't think of anything better. Any suggestions?<