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''OBTAIN PRETTIES FOR YOUR KING!'' They were the recent words Frog remembered. There were other things Frog recalled about the Sewer King. The latter's scowl if pretties were not obtained. The Sewer King placing children in a chamber filled with light for speaking during lessons. He continued to wander the streets of Gotham City.
Frog rarely saw a happy Sewer King. He usually saw the latter's scowl, but never tears. He tried to remember his foster father's smile. The Sewer King mostly smiled by his sewer alligators. His pets. His pretties.
Frog always tried to avoid the alligators. Their multiple teeth always caused him to tremble. He began to wonder if the Sewer King had toy alligators when he was a boy. Frog tried to recall him mentioning his family. He mostly remembered the Sewer King mentioning society shunning him. He thought he remembered him revealing living in poverty.
Frog wondered if the Sewer King's family abused him. Perhaps the latter ran from his family. Perhaps there were bruises on the young boy. Maybe a red mark on his face from his father hitting him. Perhaps he ran into the sewer and others never approved. Frog also wondered if the young Sewer King became friends with alligators.
There were new memories of the Sewer King. The happy latter scratching one alligator's snout. ''You never distress me, my pet.''
Frog still was not sure why the Sewer King always stuttered when he was enraged. At least the latter smiled if certain pretties were revealed near him. Mostly rings and necklaces. There was one item Frog always dreaded. The staff. The staff used for hitting any girl or boy causing the Sewer King distress.
A memory of viewing bruises on a girl's arm caused Frog to wince for a few moments. The girl's tears were revealed after the scowling Sewer King brought the staff down on her arm. Her crime? Obtaining two coins instead of pretties for her king. The girl ran to Frog before he tried to comfort her. He smiled near his companion to cheer her up.
The memory of the girl's sudden smile caused a rare happy expression to form on Frog's face.
What were other memories of the Sewer King? How he was quick to remind all children that he took them in when nobody else cared about them. The Sewer King mentioned feeding his children. Clothing them. Disciplining them. Educating them.
Frog glanced at many buildings, but there weren't any people. Not one person to adopt him. He looked back. Worry filled Frog's eyes. He couldn't abandon the Sewer King's other children. His companions.
There were memories of Frog's companions' tears due to the enraged Sewer King, bruises, etc. Their wide eyes after the Sewer King's pet alligators wandered by them. Their trembling bodies the minute the enraged Sewer King found wire hangers in the sewer and used the hangers to discipline them. They guessed his father used wire hangers to harm him when he was a boy.
Frog had to obtain pretties for his king as soon as possible. Pretties for a poverty-stricken man.
That was when Frog remembered the Sewer King occasionally reading newspapers due to children bringing them to him. Perhaps he was able to obtain pretties with newspapers. Frog began to search for any newspapers. He also remembered stealing a newspaper recently. There was something he remembered about it. Three villains committed various crimes and were featured in the newspaper.
Frog's eyes settled on a bank. They widened after the three villains ran out of it. He gasped as soon as he recognized them from the newspaper.