Prompt: Pride
Character(s): Shelly de Killer
Originally Written: 6.19.2009

After the mishap months before, de Killer knows that style must never be sacrificed for anything.

In retrospect, he might have been taking a larger risk than he initially realized by accepting a request from someone (a traitor, a liar) whose chances of being implicated as the murderer were very high to begin with. It had made things messier than he anticipated and it smeared his otherwise flawless record.

He hasn't allowed a small incident such as that one to wound his pride, however, and all he took away from it was a learning experience. If anything, he took comfort in the fact that the woman had not been wrongly punished, regardless of his original intentions.

He is a de Killer and pride is all he has.