"Is he dead?"
"I don't know."
"Percy, did you take all the coins?"
"Yes, boss. Everything's here."
"Let's go!"
"But how about hi...?"
"The boy is dead! LEAVE HIM!"
I heard the all familiar dialogue of gangs and goons. They were only strong when together but alone, each one of them would kneel to beg for death to spare them.
Those cretins were nothing but cowards, down to the last of them. But i has the not the hatred for them. Just the exact opposite in fact.
With their deed, i was given the chance to exist in this alien realm after all.
And my journey to the top started on this disgusting scorching day. Of filth and dust. I laid frozen in the hot earths until the echoes of their steps rang farther away from me.
After a couple more breaths, i could no longer hear them wh
