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« on: October 29, 2012, 09:40:29 PM »
I grab a celery stick from the bag and take a bite. "Blech, where did you get this?" I say with a disgusted expression as I drop the celery back in it before throwing it behind my seat.
"The masks aren't too far, in the slums." I begin to direct Max as he starts up the van and pulls us out of the alleyway. The trip is rather uneventful and we arrive after fifteen minutes, give or take. We pull up to a run down, partially boarded building. "Sad. Even a city like this has a darker side to it." I think to myself.
"Wait here." I say as I get out of the van. I walk past a cracked window and open the creaky door to a room lit by only a single bulb with a table underneath it. The room smells of mold and dirty laundry, the old couch against the back wall likely being a large contributor to it.
"I'm here for the masks." I say, loud enough to carry into the adjacent room. A short, bald old man slowly shuffles through the doorway at the end of the room carrying two masks, one in each hand. It takes him a whole twenty seconds just to reach the table. The light reveals his wrinkled, sunken face, one eye cloudy while the other is half closed. He shakily raises his bony arms to drop the masks on the table, which I of course grab.
"You do still remember that I paid in advance, correct?" I ask, staring at the man. He nods in silence and I turn around to leave. "Good. Thank you for your services." I say as I walk towards the door. "Twinkies." the man whispers as I cross the threshold. I get back in the van and toss one of the masks to Max. "An owl mask for you and a seal mask for me."