Tom was in a rut. He hasn't believed that anywhere could be worse than Wool's Orphanage, but he was apparently… wrong. (I am not wrong. Just… misinformed…) This docks creaked underneath the foot falls of the sailors and dock hands that hurried about, the wood seeming old and worn but strong at the same time. Crates and barrels littered the walkways sporadically, children and teenagers ran around in dirty worn clothes with faces and hair dirty from days of going without bathing. The smell of the place was that of sweat, musk, alcohol, salt, and smoke. All you could hear were the sailors and dock hands walking, running, yelling, laughing, and the sound of waves crashing, wood creaking, wind howling. There was no where (that I could see anyway, I wouldn't put it past them to have some secret hideaway) for the children could be but on the crates, under foot, on the boats, or just not on the docks altogether.
Purple eyes watched the crowd of people that surrounded them; some stopped to stare, others just went about their days but not without a glance towards them or before sending a glare the Professor's way. He could understand the sentiment, though he did not appreciate the way that those eyes would group him with the older man or the fact that very few of those eyes didn't resemble a predator's eyes when it is assessing an invader. (it's exhilarating to be seen as an actual threat than just a brat with power) (but I don't think that this is a good place to be see as a threat in though…)
Tom turn around just in time to catch the movement of three people headed straight towards the Professor and his… victim, (who had introduced himself as "Matthew, one of the dock hands here", not that Dumbledore or I cared,) as well as himself, unfortunately. The young genius took this time to assess the three and found a sense of foreboding filling the pit of his stomach. The man on the left of the leader was clearly Asian at a height of 5'6" with short black (that has a red tint to it… why doesn't mine have something like that?) hair and black eyes, with a slight but moderately muscled body, a sword (a katana, I found out later…) and wearing clothes that wouldn't look out of place on a pirate (light brown tunic under a black vest with red embroidery, black pants and a red belt over the tunic and vest with the sword attached to it, brown boots, and black eyeliner) (bloody hell…). The man on the other side was wearing much the same as the Asian (dark blue billowing button down long sleeve shirt, white pants, burgundy sash around his waist, brown boots) (he looked liked a low paid bull fighter more than a pirate…) and stood at an astounding height of 6'3" with a lanky build, light brown shaggy hair that went just below his shoulders, and laughing hazel eyes. The man looked like a Spaniard, that had two rapiers attached to the sash. The leader was clearly a captain and dressed like one you would find (again, this is getting annoying) on a pirate ship (normal white button down under a dark red waist coat that had gold embroidery with a hood, faded blue pants, black boots, faded purple sash) (minus the hat and monkey/perrot) and stood at a height of 5'10", just between the two men on either side of him. He had dirty blonde hair that was kept short and brown eyes that spoke of intelligence and confidence, as well as a thin scar along his nose and down his right cheek. All three wore amulets that were different from each other yet similar (the Asian wore a small blue and green cloth bag on a leather cord, the Spaniard had on a Fight Conch with a black leather cord somehow attached to it, the leader had a polished oval of abalone on a thin gold chain with a limpet on either side of it), but only the leader wore an earring as well. They all looked dangerous, in appearance, in posture, in their eyes, and Tom Marvolo Riddle was very reluctant to meet their acquaintance.
(I do want to learn how to recreate such an aura though, that would make others very unwilling to antagonize me again…)
I don't really like trick or treaters and last night was a bit exhausting. The costumes are fun to see though. Yay, first Tom PoV... I really hope he isn't out of character, but there isn't much information about how he was like as a child so... I just went with it. I hope that you liked it.
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