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A short distance away from the stone itself, Russian would see the girl. But his stroll through the group would quickly reveal to him the nature of the crowd.

Most of them looked like orphans, homeless people, addicts, or other such dregs of society. The merchants daughter being grabbed was clearly a fluke of chance and not an intentional result.

But the second thing he would notice was that each and every one of the people here looked like they were broken, not just a metapher either they looked physically broken. Many of them had cracks and breaks in their flesh, which had started to blacken around the wounds. It wasn't just a change of color either, they appeared as if they were turning into a sort of burnt husk, as the areas around the cracks in their bodies looked brittle, as cinder.