Pointe of Breaking (32 page)

“I must get going,” the Widower said. “The good Doctor wishes to have a word with me.”

“Send her my love,” the Privateer said with a wink.

“She’d rather catch scurvy than lay with you,” she retorted.

“She might get both as quickly as you spread yours,” the Privateer said, flashing his rotten teeth.

The Widower kicked the cement buckets into the river, dragging the woman below the waves. Acting upon instinct, he swung at her. When his fist collided with her face, it cracked. He stumbled away, unsure of what was happening. Chuckling venomously, the Widower’s skin flecked away and broke off in chunks. The moment they collided with the ground, each chunk turned into a blackbird. Her body continued to become more and more decrepit until there was nothing but coal cinders on the ground. Hundreds of blackbirds circled overhead a few times before flying off to the horizon.

“Come,” the Boss said. “There is much the Queen insists upon, and there are only the Seven of us.”

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