[ WP ] When someone is murdered , their name appears on the skin of the killer . You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there .

I stared at the angry red, raised scrawl on the skin of my forearm. It was already spreading upward toward my bicep, a similar pattern angling downward to my wrist and hand. It was only a tingle now, but the tingle would soon grow into a mild discomfort, then outright pain as it crept across my torso. Within a week merely breathing would become utmost agony. 
 
 Unable to cut it away, wash it off, or get rid of it in any way, I would soon have three options open to me. Suicide, turning myself in and begging for the `` Tattletale'' antivenin ( which would involve my immediate conviction and lifetime internment in one of several forced labor prisons ), or do nothing and allow it to consume and eventually kill me. 
 
 
 Science. Great stuff, that. An overworked police force decides to think `` outside of the box'' and the scientific community comes running. They found and isolated a hormone that is released during the actual act of murder or extreme violence, one that is common to nearly 96 % of the human race. They then found a way to `` preload'' a toxic chemical chain reaction when this hormone was released. It causes tissue to become rapidly necrotic, infecting surrounding tissues then spreads faster than greased lightning. No one can fight the infection because their body does n't recognise it as a threat as it is literally a part of you. 
 
 There is only one way to survive it. To turn yourself in for your crime and receive an injection that will neutralize the toxin. This makes things easier for identifying killers, and obtaining convictions. 
 
 The names showing up? That was a fortuitous unexplained mystery. 
 
 I'm not sorry you know. He deserved it. My only regret is that he will be able to torture me one last time.
