Malric “You came back, sonny.” He remarked, “I knew you would.”I scoffed, debunking his flat statement, “I left without a word and somehow, you knew I would be back?” I asked, “You’re not much of a good liar, you know.” He shrugged his broad, heavy shoulders, “You’d never really understand it, sonny. It’s in the eyes sometimes, that someone will be back. You just fucking know,” he dipped a lava-hot, newly hammered blade into a wooden bucket of water and allowed it steam for a few minutes, then he turned around and grinned at me, revealing his set of orange, tobacco stained teeth. “What I didn’t know was why you’d come back.” Walking through the streets that morning, seeing everyone going about their lives as if the city hadn’t been torn to shreds last night made me realize that some people would always live their lives oblivious to the dangers around them. While others, like me and probably Alruin would serve as the unseen protectors in the dark. The former had the sweetened end
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