The Dire Girl
In the heaviness that settled on him when old history brushed too close to the present.
Red Maw had done that tonight.
My jaw tightened at the thought of them. Their name always brought with it a particular kind of disgust, not the hot, clean kind you feel for an enemy you can strike directly, but something fouler. Red Maw were not disciplined enough to be honourable and not chaotic enough to be harmless. They moved where weakness gathered. Drugs, debt, dirt, lone wolves with no spine and too much appetite, all of it seemed to cling to them. Groups like that did not merely make trouble. They spoiled things. Ground, bodies, loyalties, everything they touched seemed to come away fouled.
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