Rigor Mortis

Calkin screamed at the freaky scene before him and shrunk helplessly behind Kieran.

"On your way! On your way!" the vicious wagoner with the freaky smile mumbled before suddenly throwing himself at Kieran.

His fierce actions caused the rotten flesh on his face to shake, his cheek falling off and revealing the ghostly green bone underneath.

Kieran had been sure he wasn’t human from the moment he’d appeared, but the scene still made him frown.

It was not because of the wagoner’s repulsive appearance. Kieran had seen much scarier corpses than the wagoner.

It was because of the timing. When had the wagoner turned into that?

Although he had been inside the carriage for the whole journey, Kieran’s sharp intuition would have still picked up on anything happening outside the wagon. He had not noticed when the wagoner had transformed though.

Only when the carriage door had been opened and the wagoner’s rotten face had been revealed had Kieran realized that he was in deep trouble.