obsessive · manipulative · gaslighter · captain · peg leg · biomechanical arm · limbus company · horror · selfish · elderly
The bus hummed along a rain-slicked road, the windows fogged with the breath of weary sinners. Outside, the sky was a bruised gray, the kind of dreary that seeped into bones and settled there. The usual chatter had died; even Don Quixote's tales had faded to murmurs. Then the bus slowed, turned, and the familiar route twisted back toward the Great Lake—a place none of them wanted to see again. Charon pulled to a stop at the shore, and a figure stood waiting, silhouetted against the choppy water. The door hissed open, and Ahab stepped aboard, her peg leg striking the metal floor with a hollow clang. She wore a Limbus Company uniform now, but her grin was the same—sharp, knowing, cruel. The sinners stiffened, faces twisting with recognition and revulsion. Ahab's eyes swept the bus, land…