#eldritchsales

"I think 'peasant' has a much nicer ring to it."

Ok, she hadn’t heard that one before. Was the man hallucinating or trying some really odd pick-up line? And what was with the bag?

The familiar alarm clock face across from Flug read 4:30- a time too early for most. Truth be told, this wasn’t early for Flug- it was late! The scientist and inventor would often work up to days at a time when he was on a roll, and this time wasn’t any different. While exhaustion lingered on his expression, there was a certain focus and content look to him that he only got while working.

Sure, he made things that killed people for a living, but damn it was fun. 

“Ah, that’s real cute.”

The puppet is pulled off with ease and left dangling in Steve’s hands. Now, he knows that this entire exchange will end....extremely poorly when whatever magic was keeping Black Hat like this wore off, but hey. All work and no play leaves Steve a dull boy!

And speak of play....

To be fair, she should really nor have touched the strange thing to begin with, much less stepped through what looked a lot like the swirly icecream she liked to get from the corner store in Inkopolis. But Mani Ikako wasn’t known to exactly pass up anything that looked even remotely interesting, and whatever this was fit squarely into that category.

Robert Delano could often be found inside his office. Mafias dealt with more paperwork than anyone could think, and he preferred to handle it himself. Despite the work being considered stressful, he found solitude in it. Mostly because he was alone, the only company being his roughed up cat, Romeo. That also meant he didn’t always know what was going on outside his home.

His head had lifted up at the unexpected knock on his door. He gave the okay for whoever it was to enter the room, relaxing when he saw his friend, Manny, come inside. Though with his friend’s uneasy expression, Robert’s brows pinched together. 

“We got a... A something, Rob. Maybe a problem? But you need to see this.”

“What is it?” 

“See for yourself.”