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Chapter 9: An evening meal
A lonely gray pigeon nibbled with caution at some pizza crust dropped in the middle of a dark alley. The place was littered with stuffed trash cans almost sighing under the heavy load of garbage. A single street lamp offered poor yellow light that only reached a few feet into the darkness.
An empty box that once had included a refrigerator now lay unoccupied in the street. The grey pigeon had earlier that day, from its place on the fire escape stairs, watched a ragged homeless guy leave his makeshift home. With him gone, the bird was left in peace to eat whatever leftovers it could find.
On the alley walls hang posters that had once been colorful. Now they were faded, and the colors had gradually mixed as it had been raining a lot lately. But now it was dry, though the air was still damp with the recent rain. In the air hang a stench of garbage mixed with a distinct smell of perfume and liquor, originating from the small bar on the corner of the alley. Outside the bar hang a colorful neon sign in green and red, flashing every few seconds.
Every now and then the pigeon nervously held its head up, as it was trying to listen, trying to make sense of the muffled noises from the bar and the adjoining streets. Suddenly the pigeon caught sight on a lonely figure, heading towards the bird and its food. The bird grasped a little piece of bread in its beak and hovered lazily into the air. It landed on its favorite location, the fire escape stairs a couple of meters above ground.
The figure came closer. It was a strange shape, the bird found.
Lilly Adams hurried down the alley. Away from the bar. Away from the strange man with the thin smile on his lips.
His eyes had been following her every move since he came into the bar that night. He had pierced her eyes with his icy blue ones. She had never seen such eyes before. Lilly shivered as she pulled her long black coat closer around her. She just wanted to go home as quickly as possible.
Suddenly Lilly heard a crisp, dry voice talk to her from somewhere behind her. "How rude of you, just to leave like that, my young lady. We haven´t even been properly introduced yet!"
It felt like her heart stopped beating in those moments where she spun around. There he was, no more than 4 meters away from her. The man with the icy blue eyes.
She was frozen to the spot, trying to flee but scared and unable to move like a deer in front of the flashing lights of a car.
With a quick move the man had a hammer in his hand. And with another quick move, he had his arms around Lilly Adams. He could fell her warm skin against his own. He could fell her angst. He was almost aroused as he crushed her skull with his hammer. The blood felt so warm against his fingers. He felt her life slowly fade away, as he took out the steel wire and placed it around her neck. She opened her eyes and he locked his gaze with hers. He watched her die with a small smile pursed on his thin red lips. In those moments his world was at peace.
The grey pigeon slowly returned towards the pizza crust on the ground once all was quiet. The bird found that something had changed in its alley; a big figure had come to lie partially upon the leftover pizza crust. The bird waited, but the figure was completely still. So the bird carefully made its way closer towards the bread, trying to safe some of the pizza crust. But it was in vain. With a side-glance at the figure, the bird discovered that a couple of empty gray eyes were staring blankly up in the air. Following the direction, the grey pigeon flew into the cold night, looking for another meal.