Chapter 8

The air was frosty and the snow crunched beneath our feet as we walked. Everything was so white and it made the city look almost pure. The Graverobber insisted that I link arms with him. 'Because you're so fucking clumsy, you'll slip.' was his response when I asked him why he insisted so, which was a fair point.

'Keep up Sparrow!' Graverobber yelled behind us.

'But I'm so short!' Little Sparrow yelled back. Graverobber gave him a devilish grin.

Little Sparrow was joining us tonight. Graverobber ordered that we split up tonight, we could sell more that way as some of our collected Zydrate was nearing its due date, I was paired with Little Sparrow. Hoards of Zaddicts came to us; they needed to not feel the bitter coldness of the breeze that was in the air tonight. I overheard one of the addicts say a storm was approaching soon.

After my supply of Z was gone and I had a stash of cash in my satchel, Little Sparrow grabbed my hand and led me out of the alley.

'What are you doing?' I asked, extremely surprised.

'Come on, we're going to lure them out!'

'What? Who?' Then it suddenly hit me who he was referring too. 'No, the Graverobber said no. This is such a stupid thing to do!' I said whilst he still led me out onto the street.

'We won't be gone two seconds. I just want to see, that's all.' He whispered back to me. I rolled my eyes and followed the tiny man. He came only up to my shoulders.

We giggled as we jogged to the Geneco's company building and waited down the end of the street. I must admit it did feel good to be quite rebellious once in a while.

'What do they look like?' Little Sparrow asked.

'Like that.' I replied as gestured down the street. There was Luigi Largo. He was much more mean-looking then I remembered him to look at the Opera. I quickly pushed memories of the Opera out of my mind. Luigi was outside Geneco's doors talking or screaming at the doorman.

'Which one is that?' he whispered.

'That one is Luigi. Probably the most dangerous one out of the two. He has a really bad temper. Kills anyone that pisses him off, hey what time is it?'

Little Sparrow looked down at his watch. It was 11:45pm. The Graverobber was surely looking for us now. Little Sparrow gestured for us to go back. We were making our way back to where we had been previously doing business when I realized I had lost some cash back at the lamp post where we had been 'spying' on Luigi Largo. 'It must of slipped out' I thought biting my lip.

'I'm gonna go home Shilo, tell Graverobber I said thanks for letting me tag along.' Little sparrow said when we were two streets away from Geneco.

'Okay, bye. We'll talk soon.' I said heading back to where I had dropped the money.

'Where are you going?' Little Sparrow said after he realized I was heading in the opposite direction.

'I dropped something back there. But I'll see you later. Goodnight!' I said as I turnt to run back down the streets again.

Thank goodness! There it was. Still there and crisp and on the ground where I had dropped it, I walked over to it holding my satchel closer to my body. Suddenly I saw a man bend down and inspect my wad of cash.

'Excuse me!' I called. 'That's mine' although I couldn't see the man's face, I could tell he was facing my way now, still holding my cash. 'Thank you' I said as pleasantly as I could while snatching my cash out of his hands. I felt him still looking at me as I placed the money in my satchel so I looked up to face him and my stomach sank sharply. Luigi Largo gritted his teeth.