The wind's will wanes.

  Meowing kitties chatter in a white box alone. Barbara, Max, and Blankforest.

  “Mysterious,” Akli proposed as he looked around, his head on a swivel. “Usually he’s always around here with his stall… That Leonel with the tasty tacos.” Fixing his cuff-links, Akli paused to listen to Horo.

  “Let’s let it be for today. Surely he will be back next time. Come on, get it.” Horo said.

  “Ah! Horo, you need to try them too! They are delicious… LEONEL!”

  “Cut it out!”

  With an upturned gaze Akli saw a tofu shop all to close. “Hmm, tofu…? Sounds yummy.”

  “May…” Horo began to sweat with nervous unease. “Goodness.”

  From around came shouts, “above you! Above!”

  “Hm,” Akli noticed. “Where?” There a boy flew over his head, riding high on his board.

  “So Jaromir knew of it?” Urjohar asked with his hands resting back onto a white wall. The alley was filled with strays and cluttered weeds, leftover cans, bags, and rusty trinkets.

  “Knew what?” Otie asked back.

  “All that time I never realized that you went to school every now and then. He prolly laughed his ass off…at all of us.”

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  “Hey, I don’t think he did that to make fun… He did it for me.” Barbara, Max, and Blankforest switched back and forth their attention on who was speaking, being a diligent peanut gallery for the quiet tension. “At the time I had never gone to school, so he worked it out for me.”

  Urjohar scoffed. “So what are you? Twins or what? He never told us…”

  “I’ve been hospitalized most of my life. And if you wanna be particular ‘bout it…we ain’t no real twins.” Otie said with dry intensity. “Anyway, by the time I could properly walk, Jaromir taught me enough to make it into the world. He often told me ‘bout you, back then.”

  “Hah, even if you say so, I still don’t trust you.”

  “…”

  “Since I’ve got my own deal with Jaromir, just the two of us. Its everything I believe in. And if your gonna try to avenge him, I don’t care. I do stuff my own way…got no intention of joining up with you. No matter what you say, I still don’t know you. Who you really are.” The winds picked steel beams, the screech of the atmosphere’s silence roared louder than midnight sleep.

  Otie looked down, conflicted sweat came down the side of his cheek as conflicted eyes of deep thought marked his face. “I still don’t know who you really are.” Damn, Eurig. Where Eurig was stationed was the sound of barking and metal banging.

  “Damn, crazy kid.” Akli said with anger.

  Horo began to think about the dire situation, trying to gauge the marks done to the vehicle. Dents lined the top as deep set scars scratched the doors. This child…

  “Bastard! Do you know who I am?” Akli addressed once more as he patted his pants whilst getting up onto his feet. Standing on top of the limousine was Eurig.

  “Some big-wig ya? You know that dog over there?”

  “What?” Akli looked more confused as he saw who was speaking to him. “Dog?” To his side was Raido with that sloppy smile of his.

  “That’s the dog you abandoned! Don’t tell me you forgot already, fuckin’ shrivel-dick cunts!!” Eurig roared.

  “Eek, shrivel-dick…?” Akli’s expression was marred with disturbance. This boy, such vulgarity.