Black Suit and Broken Oath
He crosses the room slowly, his own wound forgotten, and takes Marco's arm in his hands and looks at the tear more closely.
His face changes.
"This isn't from running," Francesco says.
Everyone looks.
Beneath the torn fabric, on the inside of Marco's forearm, there is a small mark. A puncture. Clean. Precise. The kind of mark that doesn't come from a fall or a scrape or running hard through the city at night.
The kind of mark that comes from a needle.
"Marco," Alexandra says, very carefully. "When did you last feel completely like yourself?"
Marco opens his mouth. Closes it. Thinks. And the way his eyes move, slow and slightly unfocused in a way that none of them noticed until this moment, t
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