Criticism needed · 4:27am Jul 26th, 2015
Black boots clacked on the cracked pavement. The heavy footfalls echoing along the dark alleys and off the grimy brick walls that lined the sidewalk. They stopped after a time, the iron grey toes of the jet black boots coming to a stop inches before a plastic trash can. Gray hands came out of leather pockets, reaching towards the garbage bin. They dug through the mess, grimy fingers clutching around anything metal. Copper, tin, even some tarnished silver. The metal pieces clashed and scraped together as they were moved from the bin to a burlap sack resting by the iron-toed boots. A jet black eyebrow was raised when their owner found something he didn't expect to. A filthy hand came up from its crawl in the garbage, fingers laced around a ruby red gem fragment. It felt... Unnatural. The hand travled slowly to the pocket from which it emerged before, depositing the gem fragment. A wicked grin went showed yellow teeth. He remembered. He had seen the gem before. He remembered what they did. Now... Now it was the time. Now... It was his time to be adored.
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3272911 Much appreciated friend.
3273327 No problem.