Jun 18, 2021
☷ @penguin-of-the-heart
What a nasty scene that laid before them, blood and remnants of someone scattered about the alleyway. It was good that night had fallen to conceal the most gruesome details, most folks leaving the bars too intoxicated to notice. Perhaps they didn’t care – the medicine seller didn’t hold high expectations of the empathy of pirates. However one individual donning a hat with an uncommonly cute motif stood only nearby the vendor, glimpsing the same outlandish gore as himself. No surface had remained unmarked by violence.
“Stay behind me.” Smooth and calm tone warned the other, slate gaze watching the shadows expectantly. An innocent passerby need not be dragged into a similar fate. “This was not the work of any man.”