Tonight's the night.
And it's going to happen, again and again.
Has to happen.
Nice night.
West DGamesia is a great town. I love the Southeastern American food -- barbeque pork soup, my favourite.
But I'm hungry for something different now.
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Parliament was a close call. The closest call I've ever had. That I thought I ever would have.
It had been a game of intrigue, in some respects. I was infiltrating Parliament and stalking my prey, when that scumbag Moriarty had the balls to kill somebody in the Hall itself, and get me caught up in the messy murder investigation. I finally got my kill after those five long days, although not the way I had envisioned it. I didn't get to end that heart's flow myself, see the blood, feel the catharsis. I got Moriarty lynched by the skin of my teeth, but I couldn't make my getaway without getting rid of that drunk Harvy, and Yvon of the Yukon, my fellow Frenchman -- they knew something was strange with the number of deaths there had been, and I couldn't risk it for another day longer now that I'd taken care of Moriarty. Sorry, guys. It was a unique situation, to be sure.
After I beat it back across Ontario and Quebec to open water, to my boat stored at Happy Valley Goose Bay Marina... even as I took my boat out to dump the bodies into the Labrador Current and send the evidence down and away into the Gulf Stream, I knew my time in Canada was at an end, had to be. It had been a good run, but Parliament was too messy, too public.
I had heard DGamesia was nice, that time of year. I thought I'd settle down, maybe open a quiet business and enjoy the rest of my days, helping others through the healing warmth of soup.
But seeing that display outside my store, inhumane as it was, also awakened that tiny piece of my old self that I thought might finally have been dead. It was darkly artful in a way, and stirring. There was a moment in that rush of sensation when I felt like I wanted to find this person and partner with them, teach them and learn from them, and I reveled in the idea of letting loose like I never had before.
But no. I have the Code. It doesn't fit the Code. I only kill serial killers.
With extreme difficulty, I shook myself back into the present, and looked for any clues to this guy's identity before I called it in. All the while, my head searched for something just under the surface of my conscious thoughts, and I was unsure of what it was.
Suddenly, a scream came from behind me, and as I turned to see the person running away and pulling out their cellphone, I knew two things. One, I was about to get much more publicly connected to these events than I wanted to be. And two, which the scream had shocked out of me: both the information I had been searching for and the reason I had been searching for it. A name, to assign to this monster whom I was going to find and kill. I tried it on my tongue.
"Gorf." I smiled, my old hunter instincts returning. "I name you Gorf."
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Evil Eye is going to work on getting me off, and best of luck to him. I'd like to be able to stay in this country if I can. But he's got his job, and I've got mine. The police don't have the evidence to hold me yet, which leaves me free to do my job.
Tonight's the night.
Tonight, I make my own small corner of the world a neater, happier place.
A better place.