OATHBOUND: Married To The Don Of The North
The wind off the water is thick with salt and rot, the scent of old wood and damp ropes curling in the air.
The docks reek of fish guts and fuel, the scent thick under the dim glow of scattered floodlights. Men move like ghosts in the mist, unloading crates, counting shipments, exchanging whispers.
I move between them, unnoticed at first, until I find the one I’m looking for.
Nekopo.
A smuggler. A man who deals in things that don’t exist on paper. If a car needed to disappear seven years ago, he would’ve known.
He leans against a stack of crates, rolling a cigarette between his fingers. His eyes flick to me, then away, uninterested.
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