theplourde

"Are we sure about this?" Kelly asked.  Barely twenty, she looked every bit the college student she had been until so recently; a college student who was colorblind and shopped in thrift stores, but a college student nonetheless.  A pale gray hoodie with a local university logo across the chest was pulled up, mostly hiding her startlingly red pigtails.  A purple and green pleated mini-skirt was worn over black and orange spider-web pattern leggings.  A pair of genuine combat boots completed the schizophrenic wardrobe.  Kelly's mint green eyes sparkled from within the shadow of her sweatshirt, as pale hands fiddled with a pair of colored elast

In the darkest part of the alley Rex waited and watched.  The alley was so thoroughly dark that anybody looking in from the street would have seen nothing save only unrelieved black.  Rex mused that once upon a time this kind of darkness would not have existed within the city; that street lamps had once pushed back the night and blotted out even the stars above.  Now though only a handful of the lamps on the street had bulbs, and of those only two still shed light. Rex leaned against the brick building to his left so lightly that you could have slid a sheaf of paper between them with no significant effort.  His body was still enough that he