"Haaaaugh," Lowe gasped for air with every breath. Every movement cracked- every inhale creaked in the most uncomfortable way.
Sure he had bit the dust, the hazy sight of waking up under someone's roof rather than over it confused his recently revived mind.
Could he have managed to survive...
"What..?"
The young man whispered as he felt himself being lifted off the ground. His vision remained hazy.
'So this what death feels like?' he contemplated, his ailing body too winded to do anything.
He chuckled. 'Well... this is strangely comforting.'
Looking back, it was a pretty dumb move...
Lowe grits his teeth, reeling from the pain. He looked back at the masked man singing, raising the woman who splattered with a phoenix feather and curing her wounds.
He barely managed to land on all fours on the roof he was anchored in, almost crashing from the momentum.
He pushed out one of...
Lowe's eyes widened in shock as he realized his mark right behind him.
'Sonnuva-!'
He launched the maneuver gear's left hook towards one of the archers, hoping to pull them down. In quick succession, he fired the other just near the archer's original location. The cables zip towards their...
"Ooh, just the thought makes me mouth water~ How much for this lot?" the fox-eared boy licked his chops, keeping a calm voice towards the fishmonger.
The tufts of hair on his head twitch nervously as he scanned the entire block. Spotting the twin archers and the werecat, together with an...
Noticing the fishermen too busy with the rest of the crowd, Lowe decides to makes his way from fish stall to fish stall, rubbing his chin while looking at the produce. He spends minutes on each stall, nodding or shaking his head, occasionally asking the price of certain fishes that he'll...
Lowe circled around to the door where Lucien and posse made their exit. His footsteps slowed to a leisurely, or rather, cautionary pace. An uneasy twitch from the top of his head. Whether reflex, intuition, or just plain nerves out of whack, the feeling is way too strong to ignore.
'Too big a...
'Damnit,' Lowe squints his eyes at the fat bastard who blocked the mark's exit. He watched the escape unfold like a hawk, all until the door creaked shut. Surprised the boot drinker wasn't part of the posse, he got up and approached the man.
'Might be best not to antagonize non-affiliates. 'Tis...
Way to mince my words , he thought to himself.
The young man shook his head. "Ay, ay, I ain't done any mentioning 'bout a fight. 'Twas all youse suggestin' I, a harmless customer, hit another, boss," he shrugged.
He shifted his weight forward, rubbing his chin.
"If you've got some beef you want...
On a table near the bar, a cloaked young man with a flat cap sat alone, tapping his fingers to the oriental tune above. He was scanning the commotion among the patrons as he drank deeply from the same pint of ale ever so slowly.
'Straight to the mark, eh? Lady's got guts, I give 'er that,' he...