Days of the Dead

[death_gone_mad]

"CAN'T BREATHE"

███████ feels an unexpected pressure around her waist and the bottom half of her ribcage when she comes into the bar from out back. She is in a corset, but not only that is different about the way she is dressed; roses, marigolds, and a tiara featuring stylized sun rays decorate her head and long sleek gloves cover her hands and much of her arms. The gloves, her tight black miniskirt, and the corset far thus far conspired prevent her from noticing her skin has turned the color of sun-bleached bone. What is more, her face is decorated to look like a stylized skull.

She feels around the corset, looking for a way out of it or at least a way to loosen it and she finds a note:

You need to stop sleeping outside. It is dangerous both for you and those who may accidentally find you. I will give you a room upstairs after you do me this small favor.

Just as she is ready to object, a tray decorated to look like an altar is strapped to her shoulders. On the tray are various candies - mainly candied pumpkin and lumps of sugar shaped and decorated to look like skulls -, bread, brochures explaining the Joe Manco Fund for deceased and bound patrons and Phil, which (or who? I was told not to ask) disperses funds for underage patrons, and a sign proclaiming
Free candy and information for deceased and underage patrons

D:
Fake Tag: Amascut

Comments

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"A career as a cop in a rotten city, to start with. But more importantly, an intensive martial arts course with the world's best sensei and deep immersion in meditation, courtesy of me. She's more prepared than I ever was." Which makes him proud.

[death_gone_mad]

"Did you have no one to mentor you, when you first began?"

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"I had a former professor who gave me the mask, and a few years of random training in boxing and the like. It's a wonder I didn't get killed sooner." And not a wonder that he was, for all intents and purposes, dead once before.

[death_gone_mad]

"Hmmm… staying alive and out of trouble in such situations is a valuable skill to have. I am sure it wasn't only luck that helped you."

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"Until I got cocky. And tired. And began smoking again." Which probably killed him for good. "And ended up in the river with a bullet hole in my head."

[death_gone_mad]

"Is that how you ended up here?"

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"Strangely enough, that was not my actual death. I survived due to a freak combination of factors. After which I finally got my training."

[death_gone_mad]

Her brow furrows. "Ok, maybe that is luck." Unless it was someone messing around with death. In that case, bad Charlie! Naughty naughty bad bad Charlie!

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"I didn't oppose it at the time. But I wonder if I was really just getting an extension and had to pay the price later."