Turnabout Debt
Damn it! Damn it all to hell! How could he have been so stupid?! He should’ve known better. He should’ve known she had another knife. Just as he did with his scalpels. He was a clever man. She was a clever woman. But she was the cleverer of them at that moment. His eyes opened into narrow slits. The ceiling. Where was up? His eyes darted. Purple. Maya lying somewhere above him. Then there was no one. Dahlia was gone. A dull ache in his abdomen. The first quadrant? Or was it the second? The epigastric. A cocktail of pain mixed with adrenaline. He was stabbed. It was a stab wound. A slash that missed the bull’s eye. An act of desperation just as deadly. He motioned to move but froze. Red. Graceful arcs of bright red. Blood. Blood was squirting out of him. He was bleeding. Badly. A severed artery. He’d be lying in a pool of crimson in no time. Don’t move. Don’t panic. Don’t die. A doctor. He needed a doctor.
distanttracesofbeauty started following you
Farewell, little boy~
…..
(You almost picked a fight with Dahlia Hawthorne, Justice. You talk big, but what can you really do against a ghost!? N-nrgh…)
[Her words pull at Pearl’s heart. No friends? At all? No wonder she’s turn out like the demon she is…]
That’s so sad…Everyone deserves to have someone they can talk to and trust.
Is that why…[Pearl swallows midway.] why you’re…like this?
Yes…
Those normally steely, composed eyes of hers shine with (crocodile) tears. Dahlia hides her face in her hands and “cries” (read: hides her laughter through very convincing sobs).
And to be r-rejected by my own flesh and blood…!
allow me to translate
‘hey you remember that time i tried to kill you’
‘haha, yeah, that sure was funny! it’s almost like it was yesterday’
‘feenie … i’m going to choke you in your sleep … then i’m going to chop you up into bits and use you to decorate my christmas tree’
‘NOPE’
To say the least. Last time I was here…well-
I got kinda personal with a certain redhead.
Dahlia giggles sweetly, as if she were a schoolgirl laughing over a very private secret.
Nothing~ I just wanted to remind you of the power I hold over you, that’s all.
Well good. Now that that’s over with, I assume I can move on with my afterlife and resume pretending that you never e x i s t e d.
Ah ah ah!~ We can’t have that, now, can we?
You’re bound to me, and I think I have a mission for you.
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