In a burning village a man crawled out of a dark alley reaching for a shot gun that was lying on the streets. Just as he was within reaching distance something stabbed into his right leg causing him to cry out in pain before being pulled back into the dark alley by a serpent like tail before the sound of flesh being ripped was heard and his head came rolling out of the alley before stopping at an armored figure.
The figure looked into the alley before closing their clawed hand in a fist and the device on their wrist released a two pronged jagged blade about two feet in length. The figure released a deep purring noise before seemingly vanishing.
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Elsewhere in the village another figure similar to the other armored one is seen walking out with a little blue bundle in their arms and in the bundle was the face of a sleeping baby boy who opened his blue eyes before looking up at the worn grey mask of the figure. The baby reached a hand out towards the mask before utter a word "mwama…" then it started giggling afterwards causing the figure to turn its head looking at the baby before making a series of clicking noises, then speaking in a strange dialect it hoisted the baby up towards its masked face looking at the child. It seemed to study him and the baby studying it before the child reached out and touched the cheek of the mask before utter the word again.
"mwama…" the boy said with a smile and the figure began to purr like a cat before a clawed hand reached over and gently caressed the boy.
"Ikthala…" the figure said.
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