Distortion Offensive
“Besides the six in hoods, four others followed, their movements less regular and more shambolic, almost as if they were sleepwalking.
Trotting along at her side, Belly-on-legs let out an excited yip, peering back over his shoulder.
“Hush, stupid mutt,” Rosalia ordered, stepping into the shadows between the two nearest buildings, both of them ramshackle huts showing the heavy trauma of weathering.
Peering back to where the excited dog was looking, Rosalia saw another man pacing along the street, this one more upright with an almost military gait. Magistrate, she said to herself automatically. He had a shaved head, the start of a beard on his chin, and, as he came closer, Rosalia saw that his right ear was mangled where it had suffered some kind of wound. As she watched him pass, Rosalia saw the man lift his hand to his ear as if in pain.
“I can hear you, Domi,” the tall man said as though to thin air. “Stop blabbering in my fucking ear.”
Domi? Rosalia knew that name; it was another of ...the Cerberus people, the ones she had met with here just a few months before.MoreLess
Trotting along at her side, Belly-on-legs let out an excited yip, peering back over his shoulder.
“Hush, stupid mutt,” Rosalia ordered, stepping into the shadows between the two nearest buildings, both of them ramshackle huts showing the heavy trauma of weathering.
Peering back to where the excited dog was looking, Rosalia saw another man pacing along the street, this one more upright with an almost military gait. Magistrate, she said to herself automatically. He had a shaved head, the start of a beard on his chin, and, as he came closer, Rosalia saw that his right ear was mangled where it had suffered some kind of wound. As she watched him pass, Rosalia saw the man lift his hand to his ear as if in pain.
“I can hear you, Domi,” the tall man said as though to thin air. “Stop blabbering in my fucking ear.”
Domi? Rosalia knew that name; it was another of ...the Cerberus people, the ones she had met with here just a few months before.MoreLess
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