Eve sauntered into the bar with a smile plastered on her face. When she was wondering down the Narrows it was easy to get the information she needed. She was petite and with the soft black curls clashing with the white dress she'd found in the wardrobe earlier, most people paid her no mind. Especially when talking about getting henchmen or other unsavoury activities they had planned.
That was how she found herself in Maidens Head.
Such an unremarkable name she thought to herself, it was obvious though that the place was home to scumbags, with mugshots framing one wall and the random blood splatters she noticed immediately.
She cleared her throat loudly, there were only six men in the bar, it was early, and one was the bartender so it looked like there were only five potential henchmen here.
Wouldn't be a bad start.
"Hello gentlemen! I have a proposition for you."
That certainly got their attention, each of them stopping what they were doing and turning to face her, except the bartender who continued with whatever boring task he was doing before she walked through the door. Eve tried her hardest to not be offended; he must hear plenty of grand proposals from people trying to hire these men.
"What could you have to offer us lil lady? You sure you wanna play with the big boys?" One of them asked, and Eve let out a loud laugh. The other four men wisely kept their mouths shut, ready to see what, if anything happened to the man who was so rude.
Eve pulled the long knife out, the same one she'd stolen from the village. It wasn't beautiful and terrifying about ones she had fantasied about, but it was deadly and she'd formed a sentimental attachment to it.
With the knife out she began to pace towards the man with a wide smile. He was, stupidly, not scared by this and instead lounged back in his chair, looking as if he didn't have a care in the world.
"I'm offering a reprieve from mundane life," she pouted, circling his chair. "The chance to do something fun, get some money. You know live a little dear. Not that you need to worry about that," she said before breaking into a fit of laughter. She waited until he tensed up, his expression nervous before she tightened the grasp on her knife, staring into his eyes as she plunged the blade repeatedly into his gut, humming gleefully at the sounds that escaped his throat – as well as the sound of punctured flesh.
She took a step back, and watched the blood start to gather on the floor before he fell out of the chair with a thud. She lifted her head up and was pleased to see that the barman hadn't missed a beat and continued cleaning – thank god.
She lifted the knife to her face and smiled widely at the blood which stained it now before walking towards the other men. All of them were tense and watching Eve the way someone may watch a lioness that was pacing towards them. Because of that they all gained her favour, she was under no illusions that if they decided to they could fight her; her chances of winning were slim. Thanks to her small frame that was something she had to accept, although she was deceptively strong. Her silver tongue, her greatest gift; that of manipulation hopefully meant that it wouldn't come to that.
"I do hope he wasn't your friend," she mocked. "What do you say to my offer? So long as you do what you're told you shouldn't meet the same unfortunate fate."
She watched the remaining men share a look before each of them nodded.
"Wonderful," she exclaimed, putting the knife back in its holster. "I'm Eve."
They all told her their names in turn, and she promptly forgot all of them as soon as they said it, not caring enough abou them to remember such things.
"So," she directed their attention to the new corpse on the floor. "I need a trademark, and am welcome to suggestions."
In all her time she'd never thought about this, her brain always got caught up when it came to the actual act of killing that she'd never considered how to make her mark. She knew she was vain, she'd stopped trying to change that about herself years ago, and she wanted all the credit to go to her every time she murdered someone. She doubted anyone would care about the man she'd just killed, even if they did manage to find his body but just in case, she wanted him to be the first one she'd kill with the mark on him. She idly considered going back to the house she'd stayed the night in and giving him a mark too, but she'd done such a good job of making it look like a robbery gone wrong – she also didn't want to anger the mafia – not yet. That could wait until she had a few more henchmen to do her bidding.
She was thinking big after all.
She looked around at each of their faces with a smile as they all peered down at the dead man.
"Well?" She asked, curious as to what they'd say.
"You could give him a creepy smile like yours?" One of the henchmen – Shortie – she decided to christen him thanks to his disappointing height, (he was the same height as her, which for a man must be unfortunate) said quietly.
Eve fixed her gaze on him and his face went red when he realized she heard. She didn't move for a few seconds, thinking it was only right to scare him before she began laughing.
"Cute but no, Joker already does that and I'm not a copycat of nobody," Eve pointed out, nudging the corpse with her shoe, waiting for inspiration to hit her.
"What about taking out his eyeballs?" Another piped up, and Eve hummed in reply thinking about it. When she thought to the future though, all the people she planned on destroying her mind supplier her with the daydream of opening a door and eyeballs just pouring out filling the room, covering her entirely.
"What would I do with all the eyeballs once I take them out?" She asked out loud, dismissing the idea when no one had a good answer.
"You could carve like an 'E' into his head?" Shortie spoke up again, clearly trying to win her favour.
"I could, would be a good way to take the credit," Eve grinned, pressing the knife into the dead man's head, making in her opinion, a work of art.
"Well well well," Eve heard a voice drawl behind her, interrupting her admiration of her art. "What do we have here?"
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