Pigeon's Presage

> *There is nothing better than condition like that*
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**Pigeon's Presage** - small tale that is the backstory of Mark "Iron" Randolph, the antagonist of "Jameson's Door", and also a prequel to this game project. He is not entirely common, in the sense that in it, in fact, two short plot lines are seized, which only connects that they occur in the same environs.

## Plot

The story takes place when the future hatchet-man Mark "Iron" Randolph has not yet graduated from high school.

At first, the narrative is concentrated on the characters completely non-affecting the plot - a boy (Older Brother), his sister (Younger Sister) and their father (Stupidad). Older Brother who is seventeen years old, in one fine day of September, runs around his school and dives into thick bushes. He finds a large block of aluminum plates there and, holding it tightly in his hands, climbs into the body just an arrived military-model truck (with a tarpaulin coating of the body).

In a cool shadow of tarpaulin, the boy settles on the rags bedding on the floor. In addition to him, his Stupidad and Younger Sister are in the back. Stupidad praises his son for a successful find. Older Brother, wiping his hands on a rag, hugs his Younger Sister. Stupidad begins to turn to his daughter with a caricature voice, but son quietly (so that her sister did not hear) whispers in his ear that his sister is no longer an unintentional stupid in order to lick her.

Stupidad is angry with his son and wants to give him a cuff, but then an exclamation is heard from the driver's cabin "We arrived!" The family rises and climbs out of the truck body. The car, as it turned out, drove up to the supermarket building. Stupidad whispers to Older Brother that when they take his Younger Sister to school, he will show the boy "how to talk with daddy", but Older Brother, accustomed to outbreaks of aggression of Stupidad, ignores his threat. The family enters the wide glass doors into the cool room of the store and going to the carts, stupidad, trying to keep his anger away from his daughter, tells his son that today he would take the cart. Older Brother laughs, and as if nothing had happened take the cart and carries it deep into the store, while the father of his Younger Sister goes a little in front of him.

Having finished shopping, Stupidad and Older Brother are loaded with purchases to the truck’s body and ask the driver to take them right to the house, and meanwhile they go to school where Younger Sister is studying.

At the same time, other events took place at the school. On this day, high school students had self-government, and their mentors did not lead their lessons themselves, but gave the students to take the reins themselves to say so the reign in their own hands.

Needless to say, almost adult guys and girls do not want to cram the items of a boring school program, and instead they are scattered through the corridors of their schools who go to the dining room in order to fill their insatiable belly with sweet dishes, other guys are looking for secluded places in the restrooms To do something risky, but most of high school students with joyful cries run to the school gym, where the pool was located, because what could be more pleasant than on the hot day of September to throw off the cramped and soaked school costumes and surrender to the cool waves of water?

But there was one person who, from her entire class, flatly refused to go swimming with the rest. It was a sixteen-year-old Adelaide, who, by nature, was quiet and inconspicuous, in view of which few were friends with her and maintained contact in principle.

At the moment, she got out of the classroom from the spirit of the class, but did not go to the gym with classmates - instead, she, crossing her arms over her chest, stood up by the window and stared at the street.

Suddenly a white darling flew up to the window, which began to fight against the glass and wave his white wings intensely. Adelaide pressed herself against the glass and asked what happened. The bird continued to wave its wings intensively and, fluttered, soared up.

The girl suddenly got scared of the window. For no reason, the thought dawned on her that now a fire would begin in the gym. The girl struggle rushed towards him in order to warn the guys about the danger, as at the same time Mark runs out in one jacket and without a shirt. He substitutes Adelaide to the bandwagon and, pulling out a sharp knife from behind his belt, hit it directly in the stomach. Adelaide crashed on the floor, bleeding.

Mark "Iron" Randolph rudely turned her and squatted her, apparently wanting to steal her personal belongings. Suddenly Adelaide opened her eyes and held out her palm forward, buried her in the guy’s chest. His blood flowed right through the pores. He cried out and, having dropped the knife, fell next to Adelaide, who at this point boiled powerlessly into a ball and in impotence half-opened her mouth in an attempt to catch them at least a little air.

Then a certain teacher came out of the corner, who, seeing two bloodied students, stretched out on the floor, ran to sound the alarm. After some time, an ambulance drove up to the school and the orderlies carried the wounded children outside in order to take them to the hospital.

In the courtyard of the school, onlookers crowded, who suddenly became interested in where such a hype in the school courtyard came from. Among them was a small boy with his mother. Seeing how the orderlies carry Adelaide on a stretcher, he held out his hand in the direction of her and said in a self-confident tone "Mom, this girl will not die, I know this, she will survive." Mom wanted to take her son by the hand in order to go away with him from this place, but the boy stood stubbornly on the spot, poking his small index finger in an ambulance that had already drove from the school yard. The small boy whispered "She will not die, I know, she will not die...".

It all ends with the announcement on television, who says that of the two children found very wounded in a local school, only the guy survived, the girl died of blood loss. Then it turns out that the TV stood in Mark "Iron" Randolph's apartment, who collected things in order to get out.

## Trivia

* Only two characters have names (Mark "Iron" Randolph and Adelaide), with the second only having the first name - all other characters only have a description.
* As often happens with Sightless Highland's products, this story was originally a dream of the main creator of the project.
* The design of Younger Sister was originally the original idea for Virdie Erdoytes-Grassfield.
* Initially, the work was not supposed to be Mark "Iron" Randolph. In the dream, it was a completely random high school student. He was replaced with a more famous character, so that Nikita "Bratish" Kuplinov would not suffer with the inventing and implementation of a new character.
* Although it was originally a dream, it can be said that the story was influenced by Shusuke Kaneko's "Pyrokinesis" (2000)
* The idea that Older Brother is collecting iron trash may be a reference to Strugatsky Brotherss "Roadside Picnic" (1972)
* The logo is based on the cover of Depeche Mode's album "Black Celebration" (1986)
* Tagline is a paraphrased line from song "The Sweetest Condition" from "Exciter" (2001) by Depeche Mode.