Raven Out of Costume #2

Julio’s Gym, late at night at the edge of Rome. Leonard had put the black car into park as he was sitting with a now bandaged up Claudio, who had insisted on coming to the gym as a lookout, much to Leo’s protest and his annoyance. Leo looked out at the gym and then to Claudio before asking, “So why did the boss call you?”
Claudio took a drag on his cigarette from the passenger ghế, chỗ ngồi and spoke calmly, “Who can say? Desperation, perhaps he has something planned, but he asked for one of us. Only one of us. I see no reason for it to be you.”
Leo was not surprised that someone would want...

One Week Prior
“Yes!” Cecil cheered for himself as he ended up getting a strike in bowling, throwing his hands up with glee. He was sure that he had a few weird looks from the people around, but he had to assure them that he was going through a skin rash with all the doctors notes, all made counterfeit at the Constables agency. Leonard gave a sigh as he sat at the bàn watching, taking the occasional sip of his iced trà when he watched. Cecil would walk over and take his ghế, chỗ ngồi tiếp theo to Leonard as he asked. “Never took bạn for one to bowl, Leo”
“I rarely do,” Leo replied. “I am more...

“Hello, Price Residence. Are bạn looking for pleasure hoặc business?”
“Cecil, it’s D.”
“Ooooh, xin chào boss. Listen, I can’t really talk right now, I’m meeting with Leonard tonight. I got to prepare a meal for us and then we’re gonna watch something. I was thinking of having a Zatoichi marathon”
“Cecil, bạn are getting far too close to Leonard, don’t bạn think? You’ve only known him for two weeks.”
“If this is about him being the alleged Walking Failure again, I don’t wanna hear it. We all fuck up, D. So what.”
“Leonard isn’t just a failure. He destroyed important...

Trenton, New Jersey
Calvin looked up to the sky, the faint sight of jet streams barely visible bởi the glow of the full moon. He stood there in his black suit, holding his signature không gian mũ bảo hiểm with a letter on the side that read “Andrei”. He held it under his arm as he looked up, holding his hand out to put the moon between his fingers. He observed it, every crater from just the eye. He was mesmerized bởi it. He looked down at the mũ bảo hiểm with a somber expression. Lifting it up, his thumbs gently rubbed against the side of the helmet, merely a model for a costume, but to him it was special....

Today I thought that I would introduce Galiah to the art of films and movies. phim chiếu rạp seem to be the thing that all people can relate to in one way hoặc another, even if the amount of passion for them can vary. So I wanted to see how an elf would engage with phim chiếu rạp from a long danh sách of some classics. Most of these I had never seen before, so it would be a first time experience for myself. After a very tiring half giờ of trying to explain to Galiah that a TV was not a magical box that contained small people and it was merely a recording on a camera of those people, I finally got Galiah to sit down...

Vinne stared at the window with a tired expression, staring from his counter at the two women having a conversation outside their car. How happy they looked, how the sun made their skin glow. He took a look at his reflection in the window, his oily brown hair, the faint acne scars on his face, his poor facial hair, and then looked at them. He was envious of their beauty. He wanted to look as good as those men that they admired. He wanted to be with girls like that. Jealousy bled into lust, and eventually into annoyance, then hatred. Why should they be so lucky when he’s got nothing? Why should...

“Claudio? Hey, Claudio, bạn gonna snap the heck out of it”
Claudio was staring out the window looking over at the cafe across the way. A place called Mikey’s with a crappy plastic sign, not an ounce of neon hoặc anything. It had brick walls, was crammed between two apartments, and seemed to only attract the local prostitutes and drunks. Something about it didn’t fit well the the small campus town aesthetic. He was waved back over bởi the sight of his girlfriend Diana, a young woman with blonde hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a white dress áo sơ mi and jeans. She was the picture perfect...

Starting today, I decided to get some of the thêm cultural aspects of human life introduced to Galiah. I tried hiển thị her some of our history from the rise and fall of Rome to the Renaissance to modern history of the 20th century. She seemed invested in it, only asking a few odd các câu hỏi here and there. Odd to think that someone could live on earth her whole life and yet not hear of any of these things, these marvels of human creation, the tragedies that were so horrid, and yet all of it passed her bởi completely. She seemed to be real interested in our religious figures, God, Jesus, and even...