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Chapter 5
Marik walked carefully around his new "home", Bakura having allowed him to roam the underground fortress freely. For some reason, the thief did not keep him shackled, like he had expected a murderer/ captor to do, but allowed him to explore unrestrained.
Apparently, from what Marik had understood, he was living in this underground "haven", in the middle of a ghost town named Kul Elna. The blonde had no idea of what the village above resembled, only that there were no people for miles around, so that if the thief decided to kill him, it would be kept secret.
Marik stopped in front of a room that, judging by it's lavish door, must belong to Bakura. There were silks and cotton fabrics lying all over the floor, golden jewelry encrusted with every precious stone imaginable, and an enormous bed that could easily have belonged to the pharaoh himself.
That's when he saw him. Marik's curious gaze fell upon Bakura, asleep, his features almost angelic, and nearly forgot that this man was a cold-blooded murderer.
Forgetting his fear of the albino, Marik carefully crept over to the side of Bakura's bed, and what he saw caused his insides to retch with pity.
Deep, blood-red scars littered the thief's flesh, tearing it into a horrific checkerboard -like pattern. In places, the skin had not been healed properly, and the inner layers of it were clearly visible, ruined and demented as they were.
""They're hideous, aren't they?," Bakura's voice sliced through Marik's thoughts like a hot knife.
Bakura stood and made his way slowly over to the blonde, who instinctively backed away.
"What's wrong?," Bakura asked, his voice laced with venomous kindness, " Am I so broken, that you fear to look upon me?" Marik could have sworn that the thief's eyes were brimming with tears as he spoke.
Suddenly the albino closed the gap between them and brought Marik's face so close, he could see the turmoil in the thief's crimson eyes. Then, as if he'd been suddenly stricken himself, Bakura shoved Marik fiercely onto the hard floor, and walked calmly away.