Based off the gorgeous bottom picture on this page: http : windscape . fc2web . com / fa / s004 . htm. Sorry! I had to space out the URL for it to show up on oO Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese, so I don't know the name of the artist, but the webpage is, I know, http : windscape . fc2web . com / fa /. I know that's likely Roy in the picture, but I assumed differently for the purposes of this drabble; this drabble describes my first interpretation of the picture, before I realized it was Roy.
First Shot
He can feel the blood soaking into his gloves, the child's dead weight on his lap: warmth draining out after life has long fled. He imagines he can feel the blood congealing in slackened arteries.
He can feel the body curling away from his, crawling away as if to flee even in death. Rigor mortis sets in faster in the heat. The child's stiffening hand still clutches the patient trigger of a pistol.
Jean Havoc tilts back his head. In that instant, there is only room for relief that he managed to shoot first.
The guilt comes a breath later.