10-10-2019, 07:49 AM
[CW: Mentions of death, potential violent imagery.]
Was it the first time someone had on-the-sly asked Mehmet about where to bury the bodies? No. Was it the first time someone might follow through? … Maybe. He had never had someone ask that sort of thing who looked like, by whatever means, he had the ability to follow through.
He had a hole dug out from last time someone had made a similar joke. While years of rain had washed some of the dirt back into the hole, and grass had grown on the mound... a hole was a hole. He prodded the heap with his shovel, unlit lantern’s metal cage glinting under moonlight off a tree branch.
If the authorities asked ... it was a joke.
Was it the first time someone had on-the-sly asked Mehmet about where to bury the bodies? No. Was it the first time someone might follow through? … Maybe. He had never had someone ask that sort of thing who looked like, by whatever means, he had the ability to follow through.
He had a hole dug out from last time someone had made a similar joke. While years of rain had washed some of the dirt back into the hole, and grass had grown on the mound... a hole was a hole. He prodded the heap with his shovel, unlit lantern’s metal cage glinting under moonlight off a tree branch.
If the authorities asked ... it was a joke.
