Knifehandle

Her fingers tightened on the knifehandle, going white.

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I tiptoed toward the first bed, my fingers tightening about the knifehandle, I dove its blade forward, straight for Wann’s fat throat.

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His mother’s father had done this for him with a woodburning tool and the boy had watched the old man as he formed the letters, permanently scarring the knifehandle with the boy’s name and date.

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Note: clearing from the left, and the position of the thumb on the side knifehandle.

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