Ashton lowered Loren's slack body to the ground and quickly searched his pocket for a knife. Fuck! He didn't have one! Then he thought of his teeth. It took him a moment to work up the courage, but then he tore into his own arm.

"Fuck!"

It hurt more than he thought it would, but there was nothing else to do. He tried to duplicate what Jessie had done to him; what he'd seen Jessie do to some of the other guys, but Loren was too out of it to take his arm willingly, so ...