It was only a few minutes into the murder and John Alestor was already interrupted. It was a knocking that came from his front door, a familiar tempo. He rose and stood in his sweat, felt it collect on his collar. He set down the knife on a table and left the room in darkness as he skated across the wood floor, into the stairs that he hustled down through. All of him was white, the boxers, the socks, the shirt. All of it except for a particular red stain on him. Realizing it, he started taking off his shirt. The knocking was getting angrier. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwMFSIRa6O
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“Hold on.” He moved button to button. Grunted. Ripped it, threw it inside of a closet to his rear to forget about it and walked towards the door. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsFPYtwUnA
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"Hold on." He screamed. It sounded like a battering ram was oppressing his walls.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTq7z1vzQOV
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Alestor looked through the keyhole and sighed. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWVvbaBqmU
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“You’re home early.” He opened a sliver of the door. His eyes spilled through the slit. The capillaries on his eyes throbbed, his iris's looked like black holes as if little red worms jumped into an abyss.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmzhDYva2U
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“I was studying.” The man behind the door said. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaM0zgfnUj
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"Right, hold on." Alestor said.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4RY5H8zWD
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There were five locks in total, two chains, three dials that thumped and clanked as they hit the the wall and the floor. When they opened he couldn’t help but sweat, especially with his son in front of him.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6rZHfvhT8g
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The look they gave each other was standoffish with their raised and stretched chins to give the appearance of an under bite. Their noses bloomed. It was a long look between the two. He was a slim boy, tall too but you would not have noticed with how low his head was. His clothes were too big for him and it made him seem like a mummy underneath a ceremonial wrapping.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAhAqulLYr
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“Why are you naked?” The son asked. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LSb3isJ2P
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“Oh?” Alestor looked down. “Oh. Oh, some girl spilled her lunch on me. I wasn’t even mad, you should have seen her sad face. I took the clothes out, they’re in the laundry now.” The boy responded with a dull and pale look.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHUUtm0D1W
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“Is that the truth?” He asked.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXSFc4ZWMu
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“Of course. What’s the point in lying about something so small.” Alestor said. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotxeSL1uZh
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“I don’t know, you tell me. What is the point?” The boy said.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cTo5sMh5B
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By now he was getting nervous again like he had gotten earlier before. He looked around to see who else was outside, neighbors who watered their grass lazily with beers in their hands, another who backed his giant orange truck into a pole. That one was in a hurry. Moving houses, probably, and Alestor was not surprised. His panorama gaze grew more intense and with it that narcissistic paranoia that drew his eyelids shut and made his eyes beady. He wanted back inside his cove and yanked on his son’s arm.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg16DIDCzDb
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“Come on, get in.” He said. He dragged his son who plopped down on the sofa.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsIsWlhROq
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“Are you hungry?” Alestor asked. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZ4OmGhOXx
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“No.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWpb31qec9
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“How was your day at school?”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuC8upFD7MK
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“Fine. How was your day at the clinic?”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3HyWHTkwp
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“Fine.” Alestor bit his lips and looked up the stairs. He brought his eyes back to his son. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEk2rWfYuD
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"Just fine?" He asked.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3pbIzQI0I
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“I dealt with a young mother, she left her husband and child. Didn’t know why she left them, only knew they made her feel terrible.” Alestor said.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaW3hFOkzjF
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“Sounds like it was rough.” His son turned on the television. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7IW2lKKPh
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“A little, for me. A lot, for her. I’m just the man she talks to.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXublCiUMN2
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“Rough, huh. Would you still do it if it wasn’t your job?”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuXsDvUU7r
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“Maybe.” Alestor began to climb up the stairs and hung by the rail. This is how it always was, his son sinking into a sort of vegetative state. Ignoring everything, distancing himself as much as he could. It always made Alestor a little relieved, then sad at feeling relieved. His son looked to his direction as he put another foot on a step. It felt like he was under a search light with the intense heat on top of his half naked body.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHeZK9SYau
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“I need to go find a shirt.” Alestor laughed. "Then some forms and stuff afterwords. Long day."620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75D3ngCICH
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“Dad.” Isaac lifted himself.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0lm67wb89
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“Yeah?”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstDHw3CpAt
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“Let’s move.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFdYhqssQE
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“What?”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGo4Kk1S2E
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“I’ve been looking into transferring credits. We can go anywhere.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCqgmq7dFF
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“Where’d this come from?”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8K9JExYzd
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“A couple months of mulling it over. And the city.” His eyes narrowed. “The city, mostly. It’s draining having to listen and watch the nasty shit going on. They closed off half the school the other day. There was graffiti all over the chemistry labs. Crazy shit written. Junkies did it, the police think.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91qrdBgEmg
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“I understand. If you want to go I can pay for it.” Alestor was leaning off the guard rail.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhhuRl2Gem
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“I don’t want to go without you.” Isaac stood.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoTPmT80Kv
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“Don’t worry about me.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsxfXNwj4v
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“If mom was here I wouldn’t have to, but I can already imagine the loneliness you’d feel without me. That stuffs unbearable, you know that...” Isaac grabbed his elbow nervously. It felt like an anchor.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbRQL8RBkq
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“I know it better than you.” Alestor gripped the wooden rail. He could feel his fingers digging deep and beginning to crack it into splinters. “I study it, I live it.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOejxNI78xT
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“I want us out of this city. It’s not good. It’s like a fucking dungeon in here, with the people, with the streets.” Isaac said. His father seemed unmoved and only grew worse. “I went out the other day to grab a burger. I saw some woman dragging around some flowers in the corner of the street, weeping, just fucking crying and walking around. She looked like a ghost. I turned and next thing you know, she almost became one. Jumped in front of a semi.” He gave a desperate chuckle. “Good thing there was a fucking red light.” 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxD9P7LgQyy
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“Don’t curse.” 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaUDcqUrfO
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“Who cares about that? What about the sto- I’m fucking nineteen.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWq7gQbAJW
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“I don’t care. You’re in my house.” Alestor punched the wood. It bent.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHxyjm9h4T
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“Alright, that’s fine. That’s fine…That’s fine.” Isaac held his breath. His animated hands orchestrated some woeful plea. “We need to move. For the good of both of us. We have the money, I know we do.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWz66VBbeaP
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“I know we have the money because I made the money. I started the business. Me and your mother. Both. We made an empire through all the shit in our lives.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWDRxInJQk
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“Empire? It’s an office. An office you can leave any time you want, like mom would have wanted. Don’t confuse your crutch for a dying wish.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3qR0ehWYN
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“To hell with that.” The wood broke. It collapsed and sent Alestor forward had he not readjusted his weight. Isaac fell back on the sofa, he could not speak. “I will not fucking leave, I can’t. You’re young and brash and lacking in foresight, you don’t know suffering. You don’t know starvation, you live in the luxury of my spoils. With fucking food in the fridge! With fucking air conditioning!” He began to kick the pillars along the stairs. “My work feeds you. It feeds me. It fed your mother and it would have fed our daughter. It was what made us. It was what we were good at, what we were meant to do until - ” His hoarse voice stung Isaac. Alestor was looking for the words. “You don’t think I want to leave this shit hole? I do, but I can’t. I don’t have that stern stuff in me to weather a future without it.”620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxu7Rf08t7q
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Isaac was tearing up. “And I’m telling you that’s a good thing. It’s good to be afraid.” Isaac managed to say between sniffling and slapping his thighs. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiR7T9RRqTf
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Alestor ran down and put both hands against his sons face and he would have maneuvered them to his neck had he lacked the little sanity left. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdr0r2tvxuf
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“Some people like the idea of moving on, they can’t bear tragedy and think it’ll change. That it’s possible to change. But I know the truth. Eight years of psychiatric training, two decades of anecdotal evidence and insanity have taught me this: people don’t fucking move on. They can’t.” Alestor shook his son. “There’s a hole in my heart and it's scary to look at. It’s the type of terror that makes people want to jump. But the smart ones? They learn to walk around it Live with it even.” He let go of his sons face. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObYU3imRJv
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“Or live in it.” Isaac said. He rubbed the red markings off his cheeks. What a smite those words were that drew Alestor back. He raised his finger to his son but was too shaken inside, he could feel it in his chest.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ139cVcTtQ5
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“I’m not jumping in! I’m not letting go. I’m learning how to deal with her fucking death the only way I can. I’ll fix it too! Do you understand?” 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJh5uMxcpx
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Isaac did not understand. He only felt his face swell and in response looked for a proper meditative pose to sit in. When he locked in place, he looked like those gargoyle's atop the sky scrapers all brooding like. He sat in silence and turned on the television, raising the volume until the green bars would not go further. Now it was time to be patient. A perfect catatonic state. He hoped his quiet existence would help him disappear from his fathers eyes but it only stung Alestor deeper. He felt his heart fall into his throat, down to his gut. He cleaned his face of spit and a nose bleed that was coming out. His hands were hot.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUJINEGQO4
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“I need to get back to work.” Alestor said to no one. "We're not having this conversation again. You hear me?" 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgDC15z3Cz
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The air was cool against his naked body. He walked up, past a hallway to a corner of the house that seemed highest of all. There was a latch on the ceiling and he began working the lock. He looked back to the loud cartoons and silent son. His chest depressed. It looked clear so he entered, closing it behind himself. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPDOGv48w5
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He was in that dark room again where he heard a shingle of metal and shimmy of a man strapped in leather. Alestor moved his hand into the darkness of the room until he grazed the rope and pulled. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPn4P1X5NF
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In front of him was a gagged man. Masked, devoid of identity. He looked like cattle to Alestor, disgusted him like cattle too. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWob78UpubY
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On his back were the runes that spelled out Bael, written around the circumference of a circle. Further within was another circle and more long lines that made it seem like a strange constellation or the lettering of some primeval language. Alestor spoke the alien tongue and began to feel the sharp designs on the sacrifices back. The tattoo looked gray underneath the buzzing fluorescent light, his body looked gray. A stool sat to the rear of the gagged man. Above it a cup that smelled foul like something gamey. It was a boiled mixture, it steamed. Alestor drank the muddy water and ran his fingers to the right of the cup to a line of cocaine now ruined by his greedy fingers. He sniffed, his nose bled even more. But it gave him courage and he tightened his face as he closed his mouth to muffle a scream. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVElBRL9nlD
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“He doesn’t understand but he will. Won’t he, master?” He said with a strained face. It was all hitting him like a diamond bullet through his brain and out his balls, shining out through his perforated body. Alestor pushed down on the gagged mans back with his palm and inspected the canvas. “You will too. Monster that you are. Rapist. Murderer. You will be redeemed and in your sacrifice we will all see the goodness of my cause.” He traced the seal with his fingers. “I’ve saved you from a terrible fate.” Alestor was trying to convince himself for his hands waned. He took another sniff of cocaine.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RJc22voxV
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His heart would not stop slamming itself inside the cage of his chest. He could feel tingles up to his finger tips and at the touch of the blade felt his energy discharged, collapsing onto metal handle. 620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJwvZedWXx
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“Don't weep. You will not be the last.” He said. They both cried. The blade rose high up. There was nothing for the gagged man but the comfort of their heavy breaths like bodies in heat. He could see his death coming, from the corner of his tired eyes where the light reflected from. It looked like a lone star in the night sky and fell like a comet.620Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5KCD2pHH2
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