She had simply said, I am the Dragon, and you will serve me, and he had. Not badly, but enough to let me know that any alley that I could touch both sides of was too damn narrow for comfort. I knew we shouldn't have come. Orange and black crepe paper streamers dangled everywhere; cardboard skeletons, rubber bats, and paper ghosts floated overhead.
If you intend to clean up . You're saying the blood oath makes this impossible? Not impossible, but harder. I'd tortured him, made him tell us where they were, and when we were done with him, I'd shot him in the head, and made the screaming stop. I've gotten called in on too many serial killer cases, where they want it to be a monster, because they don't want to believe that one human being could do shit like that to another human being.
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