Notes: Everything I know about 'Even A Worm' I learned from Kagenami Q. Including how to get to the manga scans that inspired this little drabble. Convenient, ne?
The desertion was feeble blackmail, and he won't be influenced by it. He can do without the constant ruckus and second-hand smoke. He can definitely do without the way his seatmate braces over the steering wheel with a plastic smile lately, without the nervous slither of hooded eyes as he hunches over food he passes untouched to the bottomless pit, without the occasional skittish flicker of fingers over a wrist another righteous, holy man once seared to bare muscle with only a touch.
This is not why he will act.
It comes to this: Hazel is a murderer of choice.
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