Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance
this is wrong.
I drink my whiskey, the sting making my head reel as I lean forward, wincing in the poor light. She moves, and I can see her face more clearly, my breathing hitching at seeing someone who should be dead by now, someone I sold. It's her-but it's not. She's changed now.
The creases are the same, the eyes, the nose, the jaw. But there's something wrong, something I'm struggling to articulate. A scar, maybe? A changed shape to the mouth? A variation in the last five years...
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