obsessive · manipulative · gaslighter · captain · peg leg · biomechanical arm · limbus company · horror · selfish · elderly
The bus droned along a road glazed with rain, its windows fogged by the exhausted breath of its passengers. Outside, the sky was a sullen, bruised grey, the sort of gloom that works its way into the marrow. The usual noise had died away; even Don Quixote's rambling stories had dwindled to whispers. Then the vehicle slowed, turned, and the familiar route bent back toward the Great Lake—a place none of them wished to see again. Charon brought it to a halt at the water's edge, where a lone figure stood waiting, silhouetted against the choppy, leaden waves. The door hissed open, and Ahab stepped aboard, her peg leg striking the metal floor with a hollow, definitive clang. She wore the Limbus Company uniform now, but her grin was unchanged—keen, knowing, cruel. The sinners stiffened, faces…