TWISTED KNIGHT: SABBATH OF WRAITHS VOL. 3
No Manās Land
Sugar would look out at the scenery around him and would gradually become more depressed as his eyes lingered on the sights.
The frontier town of Furnace was well known for the vast tobacco plantations, its opium, its coffee, and its prized meat rabbits, but these days he couldnāt imagine that there was much left to be proud of anymore.
Post cab traversal and Scooter Transport into town, The two agents met with Valor Globus member of the scinocephali race ( a dogman) and mayor of Furnace town.
As they sat in valors office they listened as the gruff and grumpy old hound who was three sheets to the wind at the time of their meeting outlined the details of their case.
From what Sugar & Cassenerva were able to make out in between various slurs and drunken tangents they were in for quite the dangerous maze of a quest, one that would unfortunately require them to bind at least two wraiths that haunted areas of the county too far off and too dangerous for the mayoral offices to send poorly equipped & provisioned city guardsman or Gods forbid any of various precious Sentinel Musketeers
{ *cough*, Aka his strapping / well armed concubines} into the fray.
By the end of their meeting cassanerva and Sugar were going to be staying with Sugarās parents for the duration of their case and investigations.
Valor before their arrival discussed terms with sugars kinfolk and had generously opened up his wallet to compensate them for their troubles.
This knowledge instantly knocked Sugar off his pivot and made his heart drop, Sugar and his family had been estranged for decades and he considered them to be extremely toxic and more of a threat to his mental and emotional well-being than the rigors of his trade ever would be.
However, for the sake of the case he relented and against his better judgment agreed to test the waters via the classic family supper, and if things still didnāt work out between them heād just as quickly rent him and his friend a room someplace.
Furnace Town was a small rural community where everyone knew each other. As they rode the number 3 bus down to Sugarās childhood neighborhood of Kingās Ridge, he couldnāt help but feel a sense of dread wash over him. The memories of his fatherās abuse, that loveless household, and his motherās abyssal despair flooded back to him.
As they walked up to the front door, Sugar noticed the Dong Tao chickens pecking at the ground in the front yard ( known as dragon-footed chickens).
Nervously knocking on the door as if a scared boy once more, his heart pounded fast in his chest like war drums before the charge. After a few minutes, his father with a thick braided white beard of long length answered the door, a scowl on his face.
"Well, well, well, look who decided to grace us with his presence," his father sneered, his words like a hundred daggers piercing Sugar's heart.
Despite the uncomfortable greeting, Sugar and Cassanerva stated their purpose for being there - to investigate the local disappearances that had been plaguing the town.
His father begrudgingly welcomed them into the home, leading them inside that quaint shotgun house for no other reason than to satisfy the bargain struck with Mayor Valor.
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