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[𝘈𝘦𝘳𝘰✈︎ @Aeroplein]

You're 60 seconds away from meeting the worst thing ever placed on a man's head

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𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.
𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺.
𝘎𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳

1/2 CHAPTER TWO
The shot didn't sound like much. It never did. A crack too small for the size of what it ended, swallowed almost immediately by the wind moving over the rooftop. Below, the man from the sedan folded against his own kitchen door and didn't get back up, and somewhere inside that house a woman was about to open a door onto something she would spend the rest of her life trying to un-see.
Clean, said the Butcher, satisfied, already bored. Always clean when it's fast.
Clean for us, the Elder said. Not for her.
Armo didn't watch the door open. He'd learned a long time ago not to watch that part — not out of mercy, exactly. More that some things, once seen, took up permanent residence, and he had enough permanent residents already.
"Confirmed," Shoën said in his ear, flat now, the debrief voice replacing the roof voice like a light switching off. "Clean line, no secondary witnesses on approach. Pack it up."
"Copy."
He broke the rifle down without needing to look at his hands, muscle memory doing the work while the rest of him stayed somewhere just slightly outside his body, the way it always did after. The crown had gone quiet, or as quiet as it ever got — a low murmur under everything, heads settling against each other like a nest of something that had just fed and wanted to sleep.
He had a picture on the fridge, the Widow said, softer than before. Did you see it? Before.
I saw it, Armo said.
You didn't have to look.
I look at everything. That's the job.
The Widow didn't answer that. She rarely pushed once he shut a door, but she had a way of leaving the silence heavier than it had been before she spoke, like she wanted him to sit in it a little longer than he wanted to.
—
The safehouse debrief room smelled like burnt coffee and cold electronics, the same as every other room the Graders kept for this purpose in every city Armo had ever worked. Shoën was already there when he came in, sleeves pushed up, a tablet open in front of her that she wasn't really looking at.
"You were quiet up there," she said, not looking up. "Eleven seconds, then you went somewhere. I know the difference between focus and somewhere else."

[𝘈𝘦𝘳𝘰✈︎ @Aeroplein]

𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘵....

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𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦

[𝘈𝘦𝘳𝘰✈︎ @Aeroplein]

You're 60 seconds away from meeting the worst thing ever placed on a man's head

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@Moonlit_Musee It’s that good?

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@MrEdogtagnft 𝘔𝘳𝘌 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘻𝘪𝘥𝘰

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@MrEdogtagnft 𝘍𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴

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@Bird_hasflown 𝘛𝘩𝘹. 𝘐 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵. 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮���𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈 𝘥𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥. ꨄ✔︎

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𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦

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Punished for being looked at; Given the power to make everyone look away

CHAPTER ONE
The rooftop was cold enough that Armo could feel it through his boots, through the concrete, through eleven stories of dead building beneath him. Above his skull, the crown shifted — a soft, wet rustle, like something breathing underwater.
He's late, said the Elder.
He's not late, said the Needle. You're just old and you experience time wrong.
Both of you shut up, Armo said, not out loud. Never out loud. The heads heard him fine either way.
In his ear, Shoën's voice arrived clean and close, like she was standing behind him instead of forty miles away in a room full of screens.
"You get lonely up there? Talking to yourself again?"
"I don't talk to myself. I talk to them. There's a difference."
"There really isn't." A pause, the particular kind of pause that meant she was smiling at something on a monitor he couldn't see. "Target's two minutes out. Silver sedan, east entrance. He'll go in through the kitchen — the wife likes to cook."
"Sentimental."
"Everyone's sentimental until you're the one holding the knife." A beat. "You eat today?"
"Define eat."
"Armo."
"I had coffee."
"That's not a food group."
She worries about you, said the Widow, low and pleased with herself, coiling closer to the base of his skull like she wanted to be included in the conversation. Tell her you'd eat better if she cooked for you.
Tell her nothing, said the Hollow. You're not here to be fed. You're here to finish the job and go back to the room they gave you.
Armo didn't answer either of them. He lay flat against the roof's ledge and watched the street come alive under sodium light — the sedan sliding in exactly on schedule, a man stepping out in a good coat, keys in hand, entirely unaware that eleven stories up, something with six mouths was deciding how he'd die.
"Talk to me about him," Armo said. "Not the file. You."
"He's a river-thing," Shoën said. "Old blood, older than the city he's standing in. He's spent forty years pretending to be a man who sells insurance. Has two kids who think their father works too much. Doesn't know we're here."
"Doesn't know why he has to die."
"None of them ever do." Something in her voice thinned out, just slightly, just enough that only someone listening for it would catch it. Armo was always listening for it. "You getting soft on me, Armo?"
"Just making conversation."
"You don't make conversation. You interrogate people gently and call it flirting."
She's not wrong, said the Needle, delighted.
Focus, said the Butcher, already restless, already tired of watching. He's walking. Take the shot before the wife comes out and you have an audience.
#writingcommunity #darkfantasy

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@BitGod21 𝘉𝘎 𝘪 𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥? 𝘎𝘔 𝘣𝘵𝘸

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@Th3_Survivor @harboriis @ImagineArt_X Lmaooo

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@icreatelife 90k for a A.i video creator? They make more than that lolol and you want them in office, GL

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@alexutopia @TmosMonstrocity ᴰⁱᵗᵗᵒ

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@TmosMonstrocity @alexutopia The labels you were throwing around or fling around I suppose

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@antrofrog_ 𝘈𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢.𝘪 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵. 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯. 𝘞𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧��𝘤𝘵 𝘢.𝘪 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦

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@maximusgrave 𝘈𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 (𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 & 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭) 𝘪𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰

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@TmosMonstrocity @alexutopia 𝘈 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦

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𝘐 𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰. 𝘈𝘴 𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘣𝘩. 𝘐 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢.𝘪 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦? 𝘑����𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘹

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@shinyitv good stuff man. like that you incorporated current affairs like corgi into it too. love the storybook feel especially, and the gouache style. I,m not an A.i artist but i understand its usefulness and looking forward to embracing/incorporating it along side my art.

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@MetaMona_ 𝘔𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳. 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘭

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@NVTDanh gg thx