They function sort of like a combination of Guy Pearce’s tattoos in “Memento” and the bloodstains in “Demon’s Souls,” delivering information that is sometimes useful and sometimes not.
There was, it seems, no sign of the creature, and no bloodstain which would show that my bullet had found him as he passed.
I was made to think of this by the great bloodstain on the deck close against the cabin-door.
But there was a large bloodstain, black and circular, on the floor of the calculator's room.
Anyway, with a soft laugh, the bloodstain has been washed from the Gray Phantoms name.
She took her hand from her lips, but a geranium petal was left clinging there, like a bloodstain.