<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff99">The smell of charred flesh filled the air while he worked, burning his claim into her very skin. When he was done he applied an antiseptic salve to it, to make sure it didn’t get infected and kill her, and held up a mirror so she could see her new body art.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff4d">“This is only the first of many...but I wanted you to see this one specifically. Your very body is labeled as mine, forever. Nothing short of a miracle can change that.”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff99">He turned off the pen for a second, not wanting to accidentally shock himself with it, then stripped down to nothing. The heat that came off of the device was intense even from this side, so his chest was covered in a small sheen of sweat from the first job. </span>