the noise in the street will soon disappear

It didn't take much for Amphy to get him inside. At this rate, Amphy and Zen could literally drag him into a death trap as long as they asked nicely. He should probably work on saying 'no' better to them, come to think of it.

When they got inside, Ardos, in fact, did not try to make a break for it. He wanted to, but then he got distracted by the small snack section of the pharmacy. He grabbed a bag of skittles, m&m's and assorted candies. Some guy with a long face and a beak nose was staring at him from across the store. He glared at him once and he looked away, scared. Yeah, that was right. He better be scared. Ardos grabbed some more skittles.

He approached Amphy again — and, augh, he already had the medical supplies. Why. Still, he wasn't going to let him pay for that. He was already being a huge, awkward inconvenience. He pulled a crumpled, dirty hundred from his pocket and handed it to him. "Don't worry about paying for anything, all right?"

Ardos was obedient getting in and out the pharmacy, and he was easier to lead to the park, but the rubbing alcohol stung. He'd rather suffer through multiple stabbings again than this. He kept trying to move away, but eventually, the dead was done and it was cleaned up better than his other wounds.

He reached out to touch the securely wrapped bandages. It still stung, but he wasn't bleeding anymore.

"Thank you, Amphy." Ardos smiled at him for a brief moment before turning his attention to the other people still at the park. He couldn't look at him for what he was about to say next. "...I'm sorry. I never wanted you to see me like this. I break heads for a living but... it's not like I'm proud of it, you know?"

That was really cute. Ardos smiled again. He wasn't the biggest smiler out there, but there was just something about Amphios that... made him smile.

He sighed. "I already tried. I submitted a few resumes to some places but it's all rejections. I'm not really smart, I don't have a lot of skills, and it's kind of hard to convince someone you'd make a reliable guard when your background's shady and you have scars on your face, you know?"

The ones that weren't familiar with drow took one good look at him and told him a bunch of harsh things. They weren't looking for rebels and criminals, they said. He looked like he was rough around the edges and that's not what they're looking for, they said. The ones that were familiar wanted nothing to do with him.

This was stressing him out.

Ardos didn't really feel like smoking right now, so he pulled out a bag of skittles and opened it up, popping a bunch in his mouth. He offered the bag to Amphy. "The Fox isn't too bad, to be honest. I think you might like what they're doing there. E-er, I'm not saying that you'd like naked people dancing on poles... but the special effects, that's what they're called I think, are pretty neat. The whole place is imbued with magic. Some dancers pass by a light and suddenly their appearance or skin changes."

He ate a few more skittles, nodding. "There was this one night, they were doing this, uh, magician themed thing yeah? This guy saws a naked lady in half and she starts dancing with her body cut in half. Her torso was on a table and the legs were climbing a pole. I saw that and I thought, huh, that looks like the sort of thing Amphios is into. I was too shy to ask her if she'd want to do that for a Vine."