Serenity McClaire
'What did you expect?'
As the Undertaker and the maid bowed out, Serenity watched until they were out of sight before she changed her crouch into a leaping stance and crossed the short distance to the store's back door silently and efficiently and reached her hand out, stopping the door from closing. Widening the gap, she trailed until the Undertaker et the maid down. Serenity backed up just out of sight as she watched them. A syringe? She eyed the man, filling the needle with liquids from a shelf, a murmur of caution to the girl, and then injection. The maid seemed to have a silent fit as she reached for her head, images of pain washing over her. Pulling out a strange weapon, Serenity was tempted to stop the man from doing..whatever he was doing, but reason made her stop. The maid had agreed to this, it seemed to her, though she was regretting it by the looks of it.
Ribbons. The next moment, all Serenity saw were ribbons of blood and death streaming from the maid. As Undertaker seemed to pick through them, trying to do whatever it is he did, there was a glint of a memory Serenity saw too familiar with one of her own. The flash of a fire as a house burnt down, bodies littering the floor. It came back to her and Serenity looked to her hands, as she saw burn scars and blood and the body of her older sister half-charred, half-desecrated, staring at her a few feet away. She shook her head and the memory faded as she glanced in time to see the ribbons disappear and Undertaker mutter to himself, picking up the maid and carrying her off. Serenity quickly backed out and left to the main floor, her mind frazzled. She returned to the small coffin, tracing it to calm herself. It had been some time since she saw her memories brought out in such a way. Usually they only appeared when it was too quiet, when Serenity was too alone with her thoughts. She hated that time alone most.
She barely glanced when Undertaker came back in and addressed her. Standing up, she recalled her reason here. The body at the alley's mouth must have been found by now. It was a bit away, but she would have liked to see the reaction of who found it. "Your maid okay? She seemed a little off more than usual." Serenity asked, staring into the Undertaker's eyes, trying to catch a glimmer or a simple shred of something else, something that showed his actions a moment ago. She took a half step back, not yet backing up in case he planned on doing anything to her as well. Or she had imagined any of it. But she knew better than to lie to herself. She saw what she saw.
'Money has no ties to mercy'