Apple of my eye

Madhukar Bhattacharya

Oh shit. Oh shit oh shit oh shit. Madhukar, with the ease of somebody far too used to doing this, quickly swept the tiny bodies into a nearby drain after looking to see if anybody was nearby. Everybody seemed to have cleared out, too busied by the cold and snow to bother sticking around for longer than they needed. He took a few of his pomegranates and smashed them against the ground, giving an excuse for the red that was just everywhere.

"Er, that didn't happen, okay?" he said towards where he thought the other person being chased was at. "I really don't want to go to jail for that."

Madhukar Bhattacharya

Oh God, it was another fae. This was literally the worst situation he could imagine himself in at the time - killing fae in front of another fae and getting into fae problems. Nope. He wasn't going to do anything but walk away here.

"It's fine," he said quickly. "I'm just. Going to leave now. Good bye, don't get burned."

Madhukar Bhattacharya

"Hey now-" He cut himself off, glancing around warily. He wanted to be out of the area before anybody else saw what he had done. That mattered more to him than the fact that there was a fae in his coat and his hair was standing up on the back of his neck from it. "Whatever, I'm getting out of here." He didn't stop walking until he and his cart were about twenty minutes out and even then, after another thought, he decided to go even further, just thanking God that he hadn't been too close to his apartment when the.... incident had happened.

Madhukar Bhattacharya

He exhaled, still not stopping. "Yeah, well," he muttered, "what's done is done." Personally, Madhukar felt awful for having killed them. It felt a little like flying in the face of everything he'd done on the island, as if he had learned nothing since his years of being out in the field playing guerrilla tactics on fae nobles. He twitched a bit when she landed on his shoulder but refrained from making any other moves. God only knew he was acting too quickly that day.

"You should probably head off to the police or something if you really want them to stop coming after you," he said. "But, er, yeah, let's forget that this thing happened." He could figure out exactly how guilty he felt later. But for the time. Immediate concerns came first.

Madhukar Bhattacharya

"Er, if this is a fae thing, I'd rather not get involved," Madhukar said. "Is whatever this is going to drive me mad with knowledge meant not to be known by mere mortals?" Because, yeah, he had saved her and all but who knew what fae would do?